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. 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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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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Under an offer of settlement' rule, a party to a lawsuit may make a special offer to settle with the other party, such that if the other party rejects this offer, then this offer (unlike an ordinary offer) becomes part of the record in the case and may affect the allocation of litigation costs....
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This paper extends the existing theory and empirical investigation of unitization contracts. It highlights the importance of incentive-compatibility and self-enforcement and the bargaining problems faced in achieving viable, long-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization...
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-car market, with each negotiation mediated (over the phone) by a third-party company. The data shows the identity of the employee … mediating the negotiations. We find that who intermediates the negotiation matters: high-performing mediators are 22.03% more …
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The emerging empirical literature on the economics of arbitration has focused primarily on the behavior of arbitrators under alternative forms of arbitration. This article suggests that it is natural for empirical economists to now expand their focus to include issues related to the behavior of...
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Few sovereign debtors have repudiated their obligations entirely. But despite the significant sanctions at the disposal of lenders, many borrowers have been able to consistently negotiate for reduced repayments. This paper presents a model of the on-going bargaining process that determines...
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