US education policy encourages the use of computers and the Internet at both the college and high school levels. As a … number of music stores fell when high schools received subsidies for Internet connections and it fell faster where college … enrollment was higher. This intervention in education policy could have contributed greatly to the decline in the music industry …

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent …

-level clickstream data on a representative sample of 5,000 French Internet users to study the question of how free music streaming …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 …

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

significant positive effect on paid goods in the music industry, with an elasticity of 0.11, but no significant effect in the … significant negative effect in the music and video industries, with elasticities of -0.23 and -0.19, respectively. The above … results imply that, employing the business model of offering free goods is a useful strategy in the music industry. On the …

-level clickstream data on a representative sample of 5,000 French Internet users to study the question of how free music streaming …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 …

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 …

File sharing takes up approximately 25% of internet traffic. The great majority of these files are connected with … violations of authors’ and related rights. The revenues of the recorded music have shrunk to approximately 40% since their … lack any ‘complementary sources of income’, such as the live performances in the music sector. The present text starts with …