Konferenzbeitrag

The economic impact of streaming beyond GDP

This paper finds that the shift from buying music as a physical product towards subscribing to music services implies a decrease of 85 percent in the price paid per song. We estimate that in 2019 the global quality adjusted value from streamed music was $76 billion compared to current revenues of $11.4 billion. Thus, the shift from consuming music in physical form towards subscribing to music services creates an enormous consumer surplus that is not recorded in GDP.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ITS Online Event, 14-17 June 2020

Classification
Wirtschaft
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
Subject
Streaming
price index
mobile broadband

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Edquist, Harald
Goodridge, Peter
Haskel, Jonathan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
(where)
Calgary
(when)
2020

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  • Konferenzbeitrag

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  • Edquist, Harald
  • Goodridge, Peter
  • Haskel, Jonathan
  • International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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