Information Economics and Policy 21 (2009) 169

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Information Economics and Policy

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Call for Papers

Economics of digital piracy

This Special Issue of Information Economics and Policywill be Co-Edited by Martin Peitz, Professor of Economics,University of Mannheim, and Joel Waldfogel, Professor ofBusiness and Public Policy, The Wharton School, Universityof Pennsylvania.

We solicit theory and empirical contributions on issuesrelated to digital piracy. Possible topics include, but are notlimited to:

– the functioning of file-sharing systems,– the design of digital IP rights and DRM systems,– the effect of file sharing on sales of legitimate products

and– the creation, distribution, pricing and packaging of digi-

tal products in response to piracy.

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2009.04.003

Contributions may be relevant to multiple industries, ormay have a particular industry focus on, say, music, mov-ies, or software.

The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2009, andwe intend to publish the issue in 2010. Please submit elec-tronically to http://www.ees.elsevier.com/iepol/. In thesecond step, select the special issue on digital piracy under‘‘article type.”

For questions about the suitability of a particularpaper or topic, contact martin.peitz@googlemail.com orwaldfogj@wharton.upenn.edu.