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The economic impact of removing geo-blocking restrictions in the EU Digital Single Market

Duch-Brown, Néstor; Martens, Bertin - 2016

In this paper, we present the results of a study which investigated the welfare impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions to cross-border e-commerce in the EU, using a dataset for consumer electronics products in ten European countries for the period 2012-2105. We simulated two counterfactual...

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Geo-blocking in cross-border e-commerce in the EU Digital Single Market

Cardona, Mélisande - 2016

A cross-border e-commerce Mystery Shopping Survey conducted in 2015, finds that the practice of erecting virtual barriers is still common in cross-border e-commerce within the EU, as it was in 2009. Electrical appliances, electronics and computer games are particularly difficult to buy online...

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Market fragmentation in video-on-demand services in the EU28

Alaveras, Georgios; Gomez-Herrera, Estrella; Martens, Bertin - 2015

The main objective of the present study is to measure the extent of market segmentation for video-on-demand (VoD) services in the EU. We examine access to VoD catalogues in other countries and compare the content of film catalogue available across countries. Using various sources of data on VoD...

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Online copyright enforcement, consumer behavior, and market structure

Aguiar, Luis; Claussen, Jörg; Peukert, Christian - 2015

Taking down copyright-infringing websites is a way to reduce consumption of pirated media content and increase licensed … with relatively low switching costs for users of copyright infringing platforms. The fact that the post-shutdown market …

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Language, copyright and geographic segmentation in the EU Digital Single Market for music and film

Gomez, Estrella; Martens, Bertin - 2015

territoriality of the copyright regime is often perceived as an obstacle that induces geographical segmentation. This paper provides … including copyright-related trade costs probably still play a role in music though we can only infer this indirectly in the … absence of data on copyright licensing arrangements at product level. Commercial strategies and territorial restrictions in …

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Streaming reaches flood stage : does Spotify stimulate or depress music sales?

Aguiar, Luis; Waldfogel, Joel - 2015

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

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Let the music play? : free streaming, product discovery, and digital music consumption

Aguiar, Luis - 2015

Interactive music streaming services have grown tremendously in recent years, raising questions about their effects on digital music sales and piracy. While often overlooked in practice, theoretical considerations suggest that these effects may differ according to the streaming services'...

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Digital music consumption on the internet : evidence from clickstream data

Aguiar, Luis; Martens, Bertin - 2013

The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest...

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Digitization, copyright, and the welfare effects of music trade

Aguiar, Luis; Waldfogel, Joel - 2014

countries. The territorial fragmentation of the EU copyright management regime and related cross-border transaction costs are … all media markets covered by copyright. We note that the figures presented here represent only a fraction of the potential …

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