Technological and Economic Indicators on Software Piracy in OECD Countries
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Taking countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this paper analyzes factors affecting their software piracy rate (SPR) by taking into account several economic and technological variables. The empirical results show that per capita GDP (PerGDP), inflation, consumer prices (ICP), unemployment rate (UR), and high-technology exports (HTE) have positive correlations with piracy rate; level of patent and copyright protection (PCP), personal computer (PC) ownership, and scientific and technical journal articles (STA) have negative correlations with software piracy rate.
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