Proprietary versus public domain licensing of software and research products

Our results are then applied to the specific setting where the knowledge being produced is software or a database that will be used by academic researchers and possibly by private firms, using as an example a product familiar to economists, econometric software.

We conclude by discussing some of the ways in which pricing can ameliorate the problem of providing these products to academic researchers. Documents: Advanced Search Include Citations. Authors: Advanced Search Include Citations.

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