Claims by the music, film and video industries that downloading via peer to peer (P2P) networks is destroying their …

that any promotional effect is fully internalized in a marketplace bargain between the music and radio industries. As such …, a promotional effect provides no basis for federal law to mandate the free use of music by the radio broadcast industry …

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 …

creative industry—commercial music—using a novel longitudinal dataset of weekly sales and streaming counts. We find that the … problem, and suggest a misalignment between the economic realities of the music industry and the current life …

social welfare as well as consumer surplus. Counterfactual analyses using estimation results in the Korean online music …

We test the concept of contestability in the digital music player market. The theory suggests that the threat of new …. The portable music player market has been dominated by one producer. We estimate a quality-adjusted price index from 2002 …

This paper provides an overview of economic approaches to the pricing of mechanical royalties for copy-protected music … model of downstream entities (notably, digital music streaming platforms) changes (i.e., neutrality) and the level of the …

In this paper, we model the potential for streaming music, a non-durable product, to upend and displace durable music … sales. As the popularity of streaming music increases producers will switch their focus to the non-durable channel. We …-durable product. Beyond a model of consumer utility and producer profit, we analyze the most played songs of the large streaming music …