There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and …

Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and available directly to consumers. While this has … effect of Spotify's playlists on both the promotion of songs and the discovery of music by new artists, using four approaches … cross-country differences in inclusion on New Music Friday lists, using song fixed effects to explain differences in …

to promote, potentially shifting power from the suppliers to the platforms. We study these forces in the recorded music … new independent songs more than was indicated by their subsequent success. Third, placement on Spotify new-music playlists … has a large causal impact on streams. The independent-label share of new-music promotion rose from 38 percent in late 2017 …

"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have … sales of complementary non-digital products. We examine the negative impact of file-sharing on recorded music sales and …

Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …