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An Experimental Understanding of Transaction Utility in Piracy

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  • Basu, Paulomi

    (Jadavpur University, India)

  • Banerjee , Tanmoyee

    (Jadavpur University, India)

  • Mitra, Santanu

    (Women’s Polytechnic, India)

Abstract

The present paper conducts a laboratory experiment with a sample of 209 students from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, within age group of 18–23 to study the prevalence of transaction utility in product piracy decision of the consumers. The experiment with four different treatments, treating price of original good as reference price for potential pirates uses standard descriptive statistics and logistic regression with clustered standard error at individual level to show that transaction utility is the statistically significant factor affecting the likelihood of piracy. Further, males and students belonging to Humanities are more inclined to product piracy.

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  • Basu, Paulomi & Banerjee , Tanmoyee & Mitra, Santanu, 2022. "An Experimental Understanding of Transaction Utility in Piracy," Journal of Economic Development, The Economic Research Institute, Chung-Ang University, vol. 47(4), pages 123-141, December.
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    Keywords

    Experimental Economics; Behavioural Economics; Transaction utility; Piracy; Consumer Behaviour;
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    JEL classification:

    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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