The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on … the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a … substitute to legal digital music. Although positive and significant, our estimated elasticities are essentially zero: a 10 …

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 …

The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … digital music and film. We find that availability of EU media products across country stores in the EU is hovering around 80 …% for music and 40% for films. Recent industry initiatives to reduce the transaction costs of making digital music available …

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 …

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 … unconstrained access to music, providing little incentives to acquire digital music through alternative channels of consumption. On …

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 …