digital music where consumers can sample the horizontal quality of songs by watching free music videos online. Identifi cation … comes from a natural experiment in Germany, where virtually all videos that contain music are blocked on a popular video … cancel out in the sales performance of songs, whereas online music videos trigger sales of albums. …

pioneer format in digital music, it captured the imagination of many at the time of its inception. In this article, I present … significantly disrupted the market for recorded music, its eventual success and acceptance underscores its immense profitability to … the industry, one which was built on a business model of music rights exploitation. Meanwhile, the CD's marketplace …

Publishers of computer software and music claimed losses of nearly $16 billion to piracy in 1999. Theoretically … recorded music, we develop and test hypotheses from theoretical models of end-user and re-seller piracy on international panel … data for music CDs. Empirically, we find that the demand for music CDs decreased with piracy, suggesting that "theft …

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

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

The music world has had its share of Internet-led shake-ups. Digital piracy and the advertisement rules of platforms … music for development …

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 …