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Ram D. Gopal

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Pub. period:2000-2007
Pub. count:12
Number of co-authors:14

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Sudip Bhattacharjee:5
G. Lawrence Sanders:4
Andrew B. Whinston:4

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Andrew B. Whinston:48
Alok Gupta:14
G. Lawrence Sander..:8

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2007

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Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Gopal, Ram D., Lertwachara, Kaveepan and Marsden, James R. (2007): Stochastic dynamics of music album lifecycle: An analysis of the new market landscape. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65 (1) pp. 85-93.

“The rapid emergence of file sharing networks has enabled easier information dissemination and product access to potential consumers. At the same time, copyright protection technologies for securing digital products have been compromised repeatedly. To analyze the ensuing impacts on the market landscape for music products (a digital good), we develop a stochastic model of distribution of music album longevity on the Billboard Chart. We find that since the advent of file sharing networks and other market forces (such as legal changes in copyright laws, introduction of digital rights management systems and legitimate online music download offerings), the lifecycle of music albums has shortened with lowered probabilities of survival for each week. While the probability of survival past the first week is markedly lower, the future portends well for albums that do survive on the charts beyond the first week. This is consistent with the rapid diffusion of information on music albums in the changed market landscape. Integrating this insight with user activity on online computer networks, we estimate the continued success of albums on the charts. This analysis helps to create a more dynamic decision process on resource allocation to promote and market music products. Using the robust stochastic model parameters as a benchmark, we estimate a logistic regression model which helps us make quality decisions in an uncertain environment through early monitoring of the success of music albums.”

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Gopal, Ram D., Tung, Y. Alex and Whinston, Andrew B. (2007): Efficiency Considerations in Online Auction Markets. In Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 17 (4) pp. 311-328.

“The main contention of this article is that online auction markets are amenable to efficiency considerations akin to traditional financial markets. While the underlying assets traded are dissimilar between the financial and online auction markets, the fundamental principles that drive these markets are consanguineous in that similar efficiency notions are applicable. Based on the principles of arbitrage, we develop a set of efficiency criteria to evaluate the auction activity of new and identically described items. Two arbitrage principles, seller arbitrage and buyer arbitrage, are developed. These principles can be employed to evaluate the price behavior of temporally proximate auctions and to generate a useful benchmark to make efficiency evaluations. We find evidence of inefficiency for each of the items we empirically tested based on the data from eBay, currently the largest online auction house.”

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Gopal, Ram D., Sanders, G. Lawrence, Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Agrawal, Manish and Wagner, Suzanne C. (2004): A Behavioral Model of Digital Music Piracy. In Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 14 (2) pp. 89-105.

“The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet, broadband connections, and the emergence of digital compression technologies have dramatically changed the face of digital music. Digitally compressed music files are essentially a perfect public economic good, and illegal copying of these files has increasingly become rampant. In this article, we present a study on the behavioral dynamics that impact the piracy of digital audio files and provide a contrast with software piracy. Our results indicate that the general ethical model of software piracy is broadly applicable to audio piracy. However, significant enough differences with software underscore the unique dynamics of audio piracy. We highlight practical implications that can help the recording industry to effectively combat piracy and provide future research directions.”

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Shin, Seungkyoon, Gopal, Ram D., Sanders, G. Lawrence and Whinston, Andrew B. (2004): Global software piracy revisited. In Communications of the ACM, 47 (1) pp. 103-107.

2003

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Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Gopal, Ram D., Lertwachara, Kaveepan and Marsden, James R. (2003): Economic of online music. In: Sadeh, Norman M., Dively, Mary Jo, Kauffman, Robert J., Labrou, Yannis, Shehory, Onn, Telang, Rahul and Cranor, Lorrie Faith (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce - ICEC 2003 September 30 - October 03, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. pp. 300-309.

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Geng, Xianjun, Gopal, Ram D., Ramesh, Ram and Whinston, Andrew B. (2003): Scaling Web Services with Capacity Provision Networks. In IEEE Computer, 36 (11) pp. 64-72.

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Tung, Y. Alex, Gopal, Ram D. and Whinston, Andrew B. (2003): Multiple Online Auctions. In IEEE Computer, 36 (2) pp. 100-102.

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Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Gopal, Ram D., Lertwachara, Kaveepan and Marsden, James R. (2003): No More Shadow Boxing with Online Music Piracy: Strategic Business Models to Enhance Revenues. In: HICSS 2003 2003. p. 200.

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Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Gopal, Ram D. and Sanders, G. Lawrence (2003): Digital music and online sharing: software piracy 2.0?. In Communications of the ACM, 46 (7) pp. 107-111.

2002

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Gopal, Ram D. and Gupta, Alok (2002): Minitrack Introduction. In: HICSS 2002 2002. p. 189.

2001

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Gopal, Ram D., Walter, Zhiping D. and Tripathi, Arvind K. (2001): Admediation: New Horizons in Effective Email Advertising. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (12) pp. 91-96.

2000

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Gopal, Ram D. and Sanders, G. Lawrence (2000): Global software piracy: you can't get blood out of a turnip. In Communications of the ACM, 43 (9) pp. 82-89.

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