CAPRI Working Paper Series

The following papers represent the results from the research activities directly supported by CAPRI. The first number in the numbering system represents the academic year. As papers are added to the working paper series it means that the authors have submitted them to peer reviewed journals as well. Many of the working papers below have been published by leading scholarly journals.

• CAPRI Working paper 12-04 “Willful Blindness: The Inefficient Reward Structure in Academic Research” Stan Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 12-03 “A Decade and a Half of Online Piracy: What have we learned?” Stan Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 12-02 “Bricks, Clicks, Blockbusters, and Long Tails: How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online” Alejandro Zentner UTD and Mike Smith Carnegie Published in Management Science
• CAPRI Working paper 12-01 “Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting” Bernhard Ganglmair UTD and Emanuele Tarantino, U of Bologna


• CAPRI Working paper 11-02 “The Message is the Metric Stan” Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 11-01 “Entrepreneurship and Emergence – Is It Possible to Get Something for Nothing?” Peter Lewin, UTD.


• CAPRI Working paper 10-04 “Ten Years of File Sharing and Its Effect on International Physical and Digital Music Sales” Alejandro Zentner UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 10-03 “How the Lock-In Movement Went off the Tracks” Stan Liebowitz and Steve Margolis, UTD and NC State, later published in Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2013
• CAPRI Working paper 10-02 “Measuring the Impact of File Sharing on the Movie Industry: An Empirical Analysis Using a Panel of Countries” Alejandro Zentner UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 10-01 “Is Efficient Copyright a Reasonable Goal?” Stan Liebowitz UTD, later published in George Washington Law Review, September 2011


• CAPRI Working paper 09-04 “Business Stealing and Market Expansion with Differentiated Products: Entry in the Brazilian Movie Exhibition Industry” Alejandro Zentner, UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 09-03 “Problems using German Schoolkids as an instrument to Measure the Impact of File-sharing” Stan Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 09-02 “Clash of the Titans: How the Internet Changes the Consumption of Entertainment” Stan Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner, UTD, later published in Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2012
• CAPRI Working paper 09-01 “ARMs, Not Subprimes, Caused the Mortgage Crisis” Stan Liebowitz, UTD, later published in The Economists Voice, 2009


• CAPRI Working paper 08-03 “Is the Copyright Monopoly a Best-Selling Fiction” Stan Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 08-02 “Novelty Requirement in Patent Protection” Klaus Kultti and Antti Miettunen, University of Helsinki
• CAPRI Working paper 08-01 “Anatomy of a Train Wreck: Causes of the Mortgage Meltdown” Stan Liebowitz, UTD, later published in Housing America: Building out of a Crisis, 2009


• CAPRI Working paper 07-03 “Bundles of Joy: The Ubiquity and Efficiency of Bundles in New Technology Markets” Stan J. Liebowitz, UTD and Stephen E. Margolis, NC State, later published in Journal of Competition Law & Economics, March 2009
• CAPRI Working paper 07-02 “Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy” Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, Carnegie-Mellon, later published in MIS Quarterly, June 2009
• CAPRI Working paper 07-01 “Can Ideas be Capital: Can Capital be Anything Else?” Howard Baetjer, Towson University and Peter Lewin, UTD, later published in The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, 2010


• CAPRI Working paper 06-06 “Online Sales, Music Downloads and the Changes in Music Specialty Stores” Alejandro Zentner, UTD, later published in Information Economics and Policy, September 2008
• CAPRI Working paper 06-05 “How reliable is the Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing?” Stan J. Liebowitz, UT Dallas
• CAPRI Working paper 06-04 “Teaching Digital Piracy” Michael R. Ward, UT Arlington
• CAPRI Working paper 06-03 “The Profits of Infringement: Richard Posner v. Learned Hand” S Stephen E. Margolis, NC State, later published in Berkeley Journal of Law and Technology, Fall 2007
• CAPRI Working paper 06-02 “Don’t Play it Again Sam: Measuring the Impact of Radio Play on Record Sales” Stan Liebowitz UTD
• CAPRI Working paper 06-01 “Copyright Duration and the Supply of Creative Work” I. P. L. Png and Q. Wang, National University of Singapore


• CAPRI Working paper 05-05 Understanding Change Contribution Patterns in Open Source and Commercial Software Projects, Jai Asundi (UT Dallas), Rick Kazman (U of Hawaii), V. S. Arunachalam (CSTEP)
• CAPRI Working paper 05-04 Creativity or Coercion: Alternative Perspectives on Rights to Intellectual Property, Peter Lewin, (UT Dallas), later published in Journal of Business Ethics
• CAPRI Working paper 05-03 Measuring The Effect Of Music Downloads On Music Purchases, Alejandro Zentner (UT Dallas), later published in Journal of Law and Economics, April 2006
• CAPRI Working paper 05-02 Testing File-Sharing’s Impact by Examining Record Sales in Cities, Stan J. Liebowitz (UT Dallas), later published in Journal of Law and Economics, April 2006
• CAPRI Working paper 05-01 Court Decisions and Equity Markets: Estimating the Value of Copyright Protection, Mathew J. Baker and Brendan M. Cunningham, US Naval Academy, later published in Review of Research on Copyright Issues, Spring 2009


• CAPRI Working paper 04-04 “Economists’ Topsy-Turvy View of Pirac, Stan J. Liebowitz (UT Dallas), later published in Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2005
• CAPRI Working paper 04-03 File-Sharing: Creative Destruction or just Plain Destruction?, Stan J. Liebowitz (UT Dallas), later published in Journal of Law and Economics, April 2006
• CAPRI Working paper 04-02 The Market for Television Ad Time: Model and Evidence, Steven S. Wildman (Michigan State), B. D. McCullugh (Drexel) and Robert Kieschnick (UT Dallas)
• CAPRI Working paper 04-01 Seventeen Famous Economists Weigh in on Copyright: The Role of Theory, Empirics, and Network Effects, Stan J. Liebowitz (UT Dallas) and Stephen E. Margolis (North Carolina State), later published in Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Spring 2005