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Matthias Sahli is a postdoctoral researcher at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) in the Department of Business.
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September 2024 - present
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- Matthias Sahli is a postdoctoral researcher at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) in the Department of Business. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of intellectual property, innovation, digitalization, sustainability, applied econometrics and creative industries. His research has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Cultural Economics and Industry and Innovation.
December 2018 - September 2019
October 2019 - present
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Publications (17)
FREE DATA SET AVAILABLE. IP and Economics: WIPO Creative Industries Insights
The Sound of Your Place – Apple Live iTunes, National Charts. Note: Country share (origin) in total music exports to selected music markets (destination), excluding consumption of domestic music. Chart: Creative Industries Insights Series, WIPO (2025)
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IP and Economics: WIPO Creative Industries Insights.
Music Glocalization? - Live iTunes, National Charts 2013 – 2022. Note: Annual share of music tracks first released and consumed domestically. Data based on download consumption in 17 selected countries. Chart: Creative Industries Insights Series, WIPO (2025).
Technical Note: https://www.wipo....
IP and Economics: WIPO Creative Industries Insights
If I Were a Boy: Chart Performers by Gender – Apple Music, Global Streaming Charts. Make Music Equal, Chartmetric
Note: 2024 data is incomplete. Unique music tracks per year. Logarithmic scale (percentage).
Chart: Creative Industries Insights Series, WIPO (2025)
Technical Note: https://www.wipo....
This article summarizes standard film financing practices for the production and distribution of new content over the past 30 years using a mixed-methods approach. It takes the U.S. movie industry as a case in point to study how excess risk and uncertainty in the financing of new projects are processed and managed by private-sector, entities as wel...
Copyright is a crucial component of creative industries, particularly in the visual arts
sector, as it balances the costs of limited access to creative works with incentives to
create new works. This thesis begins with a concise overview of the existing economic
copyright research, with a specific focus on empirical literature (Introduction). The
t...
This blog discusses postmortem art market e!ects. Based on a sample of 22 thousand exhibitions and 30 thousand auction transactions, the study finds a negative, short-term e!ect on the number of exhibitions, and a significant positive price premium postmortem. The study discusses important economic mechanisms, such as media coverage, age and reputa...
Intellectual property rights have changed the market value and direction of artistic innovation throughout art history, in particular when new creations built on the art of predecessors. In this paper, we test how changes in legal frameworks and litigation risks affected market value and commercial trade around artistic reuses in the figurative art...
This paper offers a primer on the basic economics of film finance and standard practices in the U.S. movie industry. It takes the U.S. movie industry as a case in point to study how excess risk and uncertainty around financing new projects are processed and managed by private sector entities and what market-based solutions are developed to prevent...
Liability rules a ect the incentives of intermediaries to disseminate and curate creative works, in particular when works build on the work of predecessors and they are potentially infringing copyright. In an application to the visual arts, we show that appropriation artists borrow images from di erent sources and incorporate them into new, derivat...
This paper assesses the impact of the pandemic crisis on self-employed income among artists resident in Germany. Using unique data from the latest available public insurance records, we show that musicians and performing artists are among the most vulnerable groups, and that writers, on average, are relatively less impacted. Moreover, the paper loo...
