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R&D tax incentives are widely used to stimulate private R&D. We review their effectiveness using meta regression analysis. →

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a frequently occurring type of cybercrime, with potentially large costs to the real economy. We propose a simple model of the size and direction of DDoS attacks. →

Targeted advertising can benefit consumers through lower prices for access to websites. Yet, if consumers dislike that websites collect their personal information, their welfare may go down. →

Businesses and the government are all collecting more and more personal data, and they use these data ever more intensively. This is mostly to the benefit of citizens, but not in all cases. →

This is a presentation about economics of internet security by Bas Straathof at TNO on the 4th of November 2013 →

The security of the Internet depends on the behaviour of both infrastructure providers and end users. →

After decades of negotiations, a single patent for the European Union (EU) is at last within reach. →

This CPB Discussion Paper presents micro-evidence indicating that the value of patent rights for a given technology show substantial variation across countries. →