Luis Aguiar

Below is a list of my publications, working papers, and current work in progress. You can also visit my research pages at Google Scholar, SSRN, ORCID, and IDEAS RePEc for more information about my work.

Google Scholar SSRN ORCID IDEAS RePEc

Refereed Journal Publications

Bad Apples on Rotten Tomatoes: Critics, Crowds, and Gender Bias in Product Ratings

Marketing Science , 2024.

DOI WP version

Platforms and the Transformation of the Content Industries

with Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy , 2024, 33(2): 317–326.

DOI / OA

Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Spillovers, and Incentive Contracts

with Philippe Gagnepain. International Journal of Industrial Organization , 2022, 82: 102830.

DOI WP version

Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry

with Joel Waldfogel and Sarah Waldfogel. International Journal of Industrial Organization , 2021, 78: 102765.

DOI NBER WP

Media Coverage

English:

Variety

Spanish:

El País

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 WP

Media Coverage

English:

The Economist LSE Business Review

Netflix: Global Hegemon or Facilitator of Frictionless Digital Trade?

with Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Cultural Economics , 2018, 42(3): 419–445.

DOI

Let the Music Play? Free Streaming and its Effects on Digital Music Consumption

Information Economics and Policy , 2017, 41: 1–14.

DOI / OA

Media Coverage

Spanish:

Longitud de Onda

European Cooperative R&D and Firm Performance: Evidence Based on Funding Differences in Key Actions

with Philippe Gagnepain. International Journal of Industrial Organization , 2017, 53: 1–31.

DOI WP version

Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes: New Products and the Evolution of Music Quality since Napster

with Joel Waldfogel. Information Economics and Policy , 2016, 34: 1–15.

DOI WP version

Book Chapters

La Digitalización y las Industrias Culturales

with Joel Waldfogel. In Economía y cultura. Una mirada hacia el futuro , 2021.

Chapter PDF

Digitization and the Content Industries

with Joel Waldfogel. In Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution , 2018.

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Working Papers

Platform Power Struggle: Spotify and the Major Record Labels

with Joel Waldfogel and Axel Zeijen.

NBER WP

Let that Sync in: The Effect of Music Reuse on Product Discovery

with Zhizhong Chen.

CESifo WP

Returns to Data: Evidence from Web Tracking

with Tomaso Duso, Jonas Hannane, Christian Peukert, and Hannes Ullrich.

CESifo WP DIW DP CEPR DP

Work in Progress

Can Machine Translation Democratize Knowledge Access? Evidence from Wikipedia

with Kai Zhu and Joel Waldfogel.

How Does Social Media Shape Information Diffusion? Evidence from Canada's Online News Act

with Joan Calzada, Nestor Duch-Brown, and Ricard Gil.