My research has examined the effects of digitization on the supply of recorded music and on the welfare benefits of new products. I have also studied the effectiveness and consequences of copyright enforcement policies and their effect on consumer behavior, the interaction between distinct music consumption channels, and the welfare effects of digital music and movie trade. I am additionally studying how music and movie streaming platforms (such as Spotify and Netflix) affect content availability and production as well as global consumption patterns.
Refereed Journal Publications
Platforms, Power, and Promotion: Evidence from Spotify Playlists
Catch Me if You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement
with Jörg Claussen & Christian Peukert. Information Systems Research, 2018, 29(3): 656-678. [DOI] [Last Working Paper]
Quality Predictability and the Welfare Benefits from New Products: Evidence from the Digitization of Recorded Music
with Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(2): 492-524. [DOI] [NBER Working Paper]
Netflix: Global Hegemon or Facilitator of Frictionless Digital Trade?
As Streaming Reaches Flood Stage, Does it Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?
Let the Music Play? Free Streaming and its Effects on Digital Music Consumption
European Cooperative R&D and Firm Performance: Evidence Based on Funding Differences in Key Actions
Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes: New Products and the Evolution of Music Quality since Napster
Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data
with Bertin Martens. Information Economics and Policy, 2016, 34: 27-43. [DOI – Open Access]
Book Chapters
Digitization and the Content Industries
with Joel Waldfogel. In Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution, edited by Juan José Ganuza and Gerard Llobet, 273-304. FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies, 5. Madrid, Spain. [link]
Working Papers
Digitization and the Welfare Effects of Motion Picture Trade
with Joel Waldfogel. [link]
Digitization, Copyright, and the Welfare Effects of Music Trade
with Joel Waldfogel. IPTS Digital Economy Working Paper 2014/05. [link]
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at the European Policy for Intellectual Property Conference (Galsgow, 2015).
Knowledge Spillovers in Cost Reduction Incentives
with Philippe Gagnepain. Working paper (2013). [link]
Work in Progress
Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry
with Joel Waldfogel & Sarah Waldfogel.
Does Digitization Threaten Local Culture? Music in the Transition from iTunes to Spotify
with Joel Waldfogel & Estrella Gómez.
Like it or Not! Facebook's Ability to Track Web Behavior
with Jörg Claussen & Christian Peukert.
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