Use a Centralised Exchange to beat the ticket scalpers

This research was conducted by Pascal Courty at the University of Victoria, Canada

Summary

This paper explores possible solutions to the 'fair price ticketing curse' which 'occurs when an event organiser sells tickets at prices that do not correspond to underlying demand conditions and does not want resellers to profit from …

Explaining the decline in music sales due to file-sharing

This research was conducted by Stan J. Liebowitz at the University of Texas-Dallas, USA

Summary

This paper brings together about a dozen studies that have charted the effect of file-sharing on sales of recorded music (and the revenue derived from those sales). It finds that prior to the dawn of streaming …

By | 28 July 2016 |

Patterns of music consumption in the digital age

This research was conducted by Jordi Lopez-Sintas and three others at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona, Spain.

Summary

This paper sought to understand the ways that people access and acquire music, how their tastes are shaped and how they subsequently share music. The research was particularly …

By | 5 May 2015 |

Positive online reviews increase book sales

This research was conducted by Judith A. Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin at Yale University, USA

Summary

This paper looked into the effect of online customer reviews on the sales of books at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. They found that most of the reviews on both sites tended to be positive, …

By | 16 April 2014 |