We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can … consumers’ exploration of new music that exhibits unfamiliar attributes (e.g. artist, genre, or instrumentation). Our empirical …-peer similarities in their preference for certain album attributes. This affects music exploration because it determines which peer …

The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

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

advantage. In the present study, we analyze a peer-based recommendation system on a digital music platform, arguing that it can …

. However, this assumption has not been closely examined for music streaming services, the consumption patterns of which can be … music streaming consumption in many countries. We also find that countries with larger mobility decreases saw more notable … of music consumption to other activities and likely to be transient rather than irreversible. Alternative mechanisms …

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