Parallel Imports and Music CD Prices

Yeh-ning Chen and Ivan Png
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Abstract: Parallel imports are a significant academic and policy issue. Official investigations into the impact of parallel imports on music CD prices have reached widely conflicting conclusions. This note reports an event study on an international panel of changes in copyright law to permit or disallow parallel imports. The study shows that, on average, legalization of parallel imports was associated with a 7.2–7.9% reduction in the retail price of music CDs.

Keywords: parallel imports; gray markets; price discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 F15 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-02-03
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