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Title: 

The Incentive To Participate In Open Source Projects: A Signaling Approach

Authors: Spiegel, Yossi - Tel Aviv University
Issue Date: 2005
Series/Report no.: NET Institute Working Paper;05-23
Abstract: This paper examines the incentives of programmers to contribute to open source software projects on a voluntary basis. In particular, the paper looks at this incentive changes as (i) performance becomes more visible to the relevant audience, (ii) effort has a stronger impact on performance, and (iii) performance becomes more informative about talent. In all three cases, it is shown that whether we start from a stable interior equilibrium or an unstable interior equilibrium.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28434
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