Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Felix Oberholzer-Gee is a Swiss academic.[1] He is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. A member of the faculty since 2003, Professor Oberholzer-Gee received his master's degree, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich.[2]
File sharing
Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf wrote The effect of file sharing on record sales: An empirical analysis, which was published in 2007; and in 2008 was cited during the Pirate Bay trial.
Their analysis indicated that file-sharing of music had negligible impact on CD sales, though this has been disputed by the recording industry[3] and other [4] researchers.[5][6] Liebowitz has demonstrated that their paper contained numerous errors and questionable claims as seen in the further readings.
References
- Broughton, Philip Delves (2010). What They Teach You At Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism. London, U.K.: Viking. pp. 147–148. ISBN 9780141046488. OCLC 559782256.
- Felix Oberholzer-Gee - Harvard Business School
- CNET retrieved 24/3/2009
- http://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=2075
- http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014399
- https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/oekonomie/nachrichten/steven-levitt-blocks-an-undesired-statement-no-comment-please/2976444.html
Further reading
- Oberholzer-Gee, Felix & Strumpf, Koleman (March 2004). "The effect of file sharing on record sales: An empirical analysis"
- Liebowitz, Stan J. (Sept 2016). "Why the Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing is not credible"
- Liebowitz, Stan J. (May 2017). "Responding to Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf’s Attempted Defense of Their Piracy Paper"
- Liebowitz, Stan J. (May 18, 2017). "A Replication of Four Quasi-Experiments and Three Facts from ‘The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis’ (Journal of Political Economy, 2007)"