I quantify the effects of private-network music sharing on aggregate album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of …

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 …

consequence, students have had better access to technologies to illicitly share copyrighted music, causing a decline in sales from … the traditional music store retail channel. Using a panel of counties over the 1994-2004 period, I find evidence that the … number of music stores fell when high schools received subsidies for Internet connections and it fell faster where college …