TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mortimer,Julie Holland
AU  - Nosko,Chris
AU  - Sorensen,Alan
TI  - Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16507
PY  - 2010
Y2  - October 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16507
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16507.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Julie H. Mortimer
Department of Economics
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tel: 617-552-3676
Fax: 617-552-2308
E-Mail: julie.mortimer.2@bc.edu

Chris Nosko
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago,IL 60637
eBay Research Labs
2065 Hamilton Ave
E-Mail: cnosko@gmail.com

Alan T. Sorensen
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
6454 W.H. Sewell Social Science Bldg
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608/263-3867
E-Mail: sorensen@ssc.wisc.edu
AB  - 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.
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