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Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music
Hendricks, Ken - 2006
This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …
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"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458502
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Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on : Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey
Alan, Sule - 2015
The pricing and advertising of tied add-ons and overages have come under increasing scrutiny. Working with a large Turkish bank to test SMS direct marketing promotions to 108,000 existing holders of "free" checking accounts, we find that promoting a large discount on the 60% APR charged for...
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A Tear in the Iron Curtain : The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458263
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Playlisting Favorites : Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry
Aguiar, Luis; Waldfogel, Joel; Waldfogel, Sarah B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599307
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Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
Giorcelli, Michela - 2020
This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights - as a result of the timing of Napoléon's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we compare changes in the creation of new operas across states...
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Making a Song and Dance About It : The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Oreopoulos, Philip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
music and dance videos for 3-5 minutes per day to increase vocabulary. We conducted a field experiment with 818 preschool …
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Coarse Thinking and Persuasion
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2006
We present a model of coarse thinking, in which individuals group situations into categories, and transfer the informational content of a given message from situations in a category where it is useful to those where it is not. The model explains how uninformative messages can be persuasive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465940
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Capitalizing Patriotism : The Liberty Loans of World War I
Kang, Sung Won - 2006
In World War I the Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, hoped to create a broad market for government bonds, the famous Liberty Loans, by following an aggressive policy of "capitalizing patriotism." He called on everyone from Wall Street bankers to the Boy Scouts to volunteer for the...
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