Friends or foes? A meta-analysis of the link between "online piracy" and sales of cultural goods
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- Michal Krawczyk & Joanna Tyrowicz & Wojciech Hardy, 2020. "Friends or foes? A meta-analysis of the link between "online piracy" and sales of cultural goods," GRAPE Working Papers 45, GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics.
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- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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- NEP-IPR-2015-08-07 (Intellectual Property Rights)
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