Supply responses to digital distribution
Subtitle: recorded music and live performances
By: Julie Holland Mortimer, Chris Nosko, Alan Sorensen
Contributors: Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. (Alan Tad), 1972-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16507; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16507.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products.  However, broader illegitimate distribution of digital goods may have offsetting demand implications for legitimate sales of complementary non-digital products.  We examine the negative impact of file-sharing on recorded music sales and offsetting implications for live concert performances.  We find that file-sharing reduces album sales but increases live performance revenues for small artists, perhaps through increased awareness.  The impact on live performance revenues for large, well-known artists is negligible"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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