On File Sharing With Indirect Network Effects Between Concert Ticket Sales and Music Recordings

Economists Examine File-Sharing and Music Sales

Music file sharing and sales displacement in the iTunes era

A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had attractive legal digital a la carte options. The iTunes Music Store has grown quickly since its appearance in 2003, and digital music now accounts for a third of US recorded music sales. Using a new survey of University of...

File Sharing on Album Sales

I quantify the relationship between private–network file sharing activity and album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of 2,109 albums’ U.S. sales and file sharing downloads during 2008. Exogenous shocks to file sharing capacity address the simultaneity problem. In theory, piracy could crowd out sales by building file sharing capacity or increase them through word of mouth. I find eviden...

Ten Years of File Sharing and Its Effect on International Physical and Digital Music Sales

A Hybrid Neural Network Prediction Model of Air Ticket Sales

Air ticket sales revenue is an important source of revenue for travel agencies, and if future air ticket sales revenue can be accurately forecast, travel agencies will be able to advance procurement to achieve a sufficient amount of cost-effective tickets. Therefore, this study applied the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) to establish a prediction model of travel agen...