Refereed Journal Publications

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

Marketing Science, 2024. [DOI] [Last Working Paper Version]

Platforms and the Transformation of the Content Industries

with Imke Reimers & Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33(2): 317-326. [DOI - Open Access]

Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Spillovers, and Incentive Contracts 

with Philippe Gagnepain. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022, 82: 102830. [DOI] [Last Working Paper Version]

Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry 

with Joel Waldfogel & Sarah Waldfogel. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, 78: 102765. [DOI] [NBER Working Paper] 

Platforms, Power, and Promotion: Evidence from Spotify Playlists

with Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Industrial Economics, 2021, 69: 653-691. [DOI] [Last Working Paper Version]

• Top cited article in the journal among work published in 2021-2022.

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 Version] 

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? 

with Joel Waldfogel. Journal of Cultural Economics, 2018, 42(3): 419-445. [DOI] [Last Working Paper Version]

As Streaming Reaches Flood Stage, Does it Stimulate or Depress Music Sales? 

with Joel Waldfogel. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, 57: 278-307. [DOI] [Last Working Paper Version] 

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

Information Economics and Policy, 2017, 41: 1-14. [DOI – Open Access] 

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] [Last Working Paper 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] [Last Working Paper Version] 

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

La Digitalización y las Industrias Culturales

with Joel Waldfogel. In Economía y cultura. Una mirada hacia el futuro, edited by Victoria Ateca Amestoy, Juan-José Ganuza, and Jesús Prieto Sacristán , 295-322, 2021. FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies, 5. Madrid, Spain. [link]

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, 2018. FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies, 5. Madrid, Spain. [link]

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]

Facebook Shadow Profiles

with Christian Peukert, Maximilian Schaefer, and Hannes Ullrich. [link] [Major revision coming soon!]

Work in Progress

Will 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.

Inactive Working Papers

Digitization and the Welfare Effects of Motion Picture Trade

with Joel Waldfogel. [link] 

Going Mobile: The Effects of Smartphone Usage on Internet Consumption 

IPTS Digital Economy Working Paper 2019/07. [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).