The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of cross-border music trade patterns in this transition period … and to explain what drives digital music trade patterns. The shift from analogue to digital music distribution has … substantially reduced trade costs and has enlarged the choice sets of music consumers around the world. Using comprehensive data on …

developments in recorded music as our context. Digitization has expanded consumption opportunities by giving consumers access to … music industry tripled the number of new products between 2000 and 2008. We quantify the effects of new music on welfare …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade …. Despite substantial growth in availability, the available choice sets of digital music have not fully converged across … often perceived as an obstacle to greater availability. However, other factors such as commercial strategies by music …

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 … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and, because of streaming, has raised the number of … Spotify emerging as dominant major interactive music streaming platform, this paper explores the effect of Spotify's playlists … inclusion decisions on both the promotion of songs and the discovery of music by new artists. We employ four empirical …

Recorded music revenue has fallen sharply since the appearance of the first digital sharing technology (Napster) in … sharing. The fall in revenue raises a serious question about the viability of continued investment in new recorded music … makers to intervene to reinforce copyright protection in music. From this perspective, the correct barometer for the health …