and some rule-of-thumb managerial implications for the music industry. The aim is to show how technological innovation …) may be harmful for the music industry only within one specific group of consumers. New technologies can instead promote … music consumption (especially of live music) by the other categories of consumers. By investing in music knowledge and …

developments in recorded music as our context. Digitization has expanded consumption opportunities by giving consumers access to … digitization has also reduced the cost of bringing new products to market, giving rise to a different sort of long tail, in … music industry tripled the number of new products between 2000 and 2008. We quantify the effects of new music on welfare …

Digitization has importantly expanded the scope for reusing music in movies, a process known as music synchronization …. We use panel data on Netflix and Shazam to estimate the causal effect of music synchronization on the discovery of reused … songs. Our results show that songs are substantially more likely to be discovered via Shazam’s music recognition algorithm …

We analyze the role of music downloading on the current downturn in CD sales. We provide 2000-2001 cross …-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. we also assess the …

This paper analyzes the impact of music file sharing on CD purchases. Traditionally, two arguments are opposed … concerning the impact of music file sharing on CD sales. On the one hand, MP3 downloads only reduces sales of legitimate CDs (the …

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive … and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …

This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the …