Access Pricing to An Operating System Platform when Piracy Matters

作     者：Asma Brahem Khaireddine Jebsi Asma Brahem;Khaireddine Jebsi

作者机构：Faculty of Management and Economic Sciences of SousseUniversity of SousseTunisia 

出 版 物：《Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering》 (系统科学与系统工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第29卷第2期

页      面：184-202页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 08[工学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 081202[工学-计算机软件与理论] 

基　　金：We would like to thank the anonymous referees for their useful comments and suggestions and for giving us the opportunity to improve the quality of this paper. Also  We would like to thank Dr. Chokri Aloui for the interest and the valuable remarks he has given to this work. 

主　　题：Platform software developers piracy two-sided market single-homing 

摘      要：This paper examines the impact of piracy on access pricing strategy of an operating system platform.We study the behavior of users and developers due to an increase in software protection when positive network externalities matter.We show that when piracy cost increases,access demands to the platform vary in the same direction and the magnitude of this variation depends on both the marginal network benefit that a developer derives and a certain threshold of piracy cost.Taking into account the behavior of these two sides when piracy matters,the monopoly platform changes its pricing strategy.We show that,it tends to reduce or to increase access fees.Finally,we show that under certain conditions,the divide-and-conquer pricing strategy can be reversed.