Replication Data for Digital Distribution Economics Research

Replication data and code for the academic paper 'Can Digital Distribution Defy the Law of Gravity?' by Yuta Watabe, Eugene Kanasheuski, and Han Yang. The dataset is hosted on the Borealis Harvested Dataverse platform and was last updated on October 13, 2025. It is intended to reproduce the tables and figures from the original study.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric analyses based on the data and methods described in the paper
• Validate the statistical results and figures presented in the original research
• Use the provided code as a template for similar economic modeling of digital markets

Strengths

• Directly supports replication of a specific, peer-reviewed academic publication
• Includes associated code for reproducing analyses, which suggests methodological transparency
• Last updated on 2025-10-13, indicating recent maintenance

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Created by the paper's authors for replication purposes.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-13 00:44:39