BUYING, SHARING AND RENTING INFORMATION GOODS*

By Hal R. Varian. 2003

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Subfields: Information Systems, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis (2007, neutral): “While concerns about P2P are widespread, the theoretical effect of file sharing on record sales and industry profits is ambiguous (Takeyama 1997; Bakos, Brynjolfsson, and Lichtman 1999; Varian 2000).”
Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods (2003, positive): “…by presenting a new model directly contrasting fixed-fee and nonlinear pricing of information goods within a very general analytical framework, and underlining the importance of transaction costs (highlighted briefly by Varian, 2000) in the design of optimal pricing schedules for information goods.”
Collaborative consumption : towards a resource-saving consumption culture (2013, background): “Varian in the Journal of Industrial Economics (2000) already argued that it is not necessarily true that sharing of goods is bad for original producers, because the price of the good that should be shared would be much higher than the book would cost for single purchase [35].”
Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy (2015, background): “The availability fractions of many users suggests a pattern of usage reflective of combining personal driving with marketplace supply from time-to-time.”
As streaming reaches flood stage, does it stimulate or depress music sales? (2017, background): “(3)Streaming also represents a business strategy of renting, as opposed to selling, access to recorded music, which can be advantageous for producers by eliminating resale, among other mechanisms (Varian, 2000).”
How to Best Ensure Remuneration for Creators in the Market for Music? Copyright and its Alternatives (2006, methodology): “A instructive variant of these models of limit price setting is given by Varian (2005).(27) There, a monopolist must decide on the price to charge for his good, where consumers have two options – to purchase a unit of the good from the monopolist, or to join together in a “sharing syndicate” and pur”