Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances

Julie Holland Mortimer, Chris Nosko, Alan Sorensen

NBER Working Paper No. 16507
Issued in October 2010

---- Acknowledgements -----

The data for this study were provided by Pollstar and Nielsen SoundScan, and we thank Chris Muratore, Gary Bongiovanni, and Alan Krueger for their help in assembling the data. Elias Bruegmann, Natalie Chun, Yani Ioannou, Anna Levine, Maisy Samuelson, Matt Schefer, and Hassan Sultan provided outstanding research assistance. We are thankful to Tim Bresnahan, Austan Goolsbee, and Rob Porter for helpful comments. Any errors are ours. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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