I quantify the effects of private-network music sharing on aggregate album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of …

The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent …

A study claiming that file sharing has not reduced new music creation is evaluated. The defects in the analysis are …

Several empirical studies exist that measure the impact of filesharing services on music sales, and most suggest that … substituted out of music and into movies. This paper uses micro-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (1998 through 2003 …) to test for this possible substitution effect. The data do not support the hypothesis that music consumers spent less on …

exists that allows for the presence of a profit maximizing music industry as an intermediary between the creators of … buying music. The model provides testable price and demand equations and suggests that file sharing may have been undertaken … by consumers who were previously not in the market for music …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection … analysis, I show that the sharp decline in music industry revenue that paralleled the rise of file sharing was associated … file sharing began was associated with a net increase in the number of new hit songs, ceteris paribus. Thus, for the music …

In a recent and unpublished study — Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and Music Output — Tulane … University Law Professor Glynn Lunney, Jr., concludes that “file sharing has not reduced the creation of new original music.” The … claim is based on the correlation of music sales over time to the appearance of “new artists”, narrowly defined, appearing …

Music is an information good, and more specifically, an experience good, whose true value is realized only after its … consumption. At its fundamental form, artists create (or produce) the music that consumers pay to listen. Digital technologies and … of such goods. This paper models the economics of online music sharing and addresses the fundamental question: who …