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 …

We present a framework to evaluate the impact of digital music distribution. We set up a representative model that … enables the comparative static analysis. We then interpret two empirical observations about the music industry, the sales …

The music industry is facing the development of online P2P networks, direct download services and other forms of … digital piracy, while at the same time the format and promotion of pre-recorded music are undergoing major transformations …. The chapter is organized as follows. First, I analyze how digital piracy and digital music distribution are changing 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 …