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Gerben Bakker

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Department of Economic History
London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom
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Working papers

  1. Bakker, Gerben, 2021. "Infrastructure killed the electric car," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112691, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  2. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-156, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
  3. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 341, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  4. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2015. "A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," Economic Research Papers 269726, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
  5. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  6. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  7. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the industrial revolution," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 51527, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  8. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  9. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  10. Bakker, Gerben, 2010. "The evolution of the British entertainment business: film, music and videogames," Economic History Working Papers 37336, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  11. Bakker, Gerben, 2009. "Time and productivity growth in services: how motion pictures industrialized entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 27866, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  12. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 22314, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  13. Bakker, Gerben & Iliopoulou, Stavroula, 2007. "Studying the past to plan for the future: a case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity," Economic History Working Papers 31459, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  14. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Trading facts: Arrow's fundamental paradox and the emergence of global news networks, 1750-1900," Economic History Working Papers 22519, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  15. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Economic History Working Papers 22316, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  16. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
  17. Bakker, Gerben, 2003. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927," Economic History Working Papers 22366, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

Articles

  1. Gerben Bakker, 2021. "Infrastructure killed the electric car," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 6(10), pages 947-948, October.
  2. Gerben Bakker & Nicholas Crafts & Pieter Woltjer, 2019. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: The United States, 1899–1941," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(622), pages 2267-2294.
  3. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: How firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(10), pages 1793-1814.
  4. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 1036-1063, December.
  5. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "From Betamax to Blockbuster: video stores and the invention of movies on video," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(3), pages 472-474.
  6. Bakker, Gerben, 2010. "Global Experience Industries: The Business of the Experience Economy. By Jens Christensen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. 454 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Paper, $64.00. ISBN: 978-87-793," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(3), pages 625-626, October.
  7. Bakker, Gerben, 2010. "Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution, 1895–1915. Edited by Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoejf. Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2007. viii + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes. Paper, $27.95. ISBN: 0â€," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(1), pages 172-174, April.
  8. Gerben Bakker, 2010. "Creative urban milieus: historical perspectives on culture, economy, and the city – Edited by Martina Heßler and Clemens Zimmermann," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(2), pages 567-568, May.
  9. Bakker, Gerben, 2006. "The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram's International Businesses, 1945–1998," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(1), pages 81-123, April.
  10. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
  11. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "Selling French Films on Foreign Markets: The International Strategy of a Medium-Sized Film Company," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(1), pages 45-76, March.
  12. Gerben Bakker, 2004. "Quarter notes and bank notes: the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 57(4), pages 796-797, November.
  13. Gerben Bakker, 2003. "Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 101-127.
  14. Bakker, Gerben, 2003. "Entertainment Industrialized: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(4), pages 579-585, December.
  15. Bakker, Gerben, 2002. "David W. Galenson. Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi + 251 pp. ISBN 0-674-00612-7, $29.95," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(4), pages 735-737, December.
  16. Bakker, Gerben, 2001. "Richard E. Caves. Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 2000. ix + 454 pp. ISBN 0-674-00164-8, $45.00. - Lary May. The Big Tomorrow: Holly," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(2), pages 392-395, June.
  17. Bakker, Gerben, 2001. "Stars and Stories: How Films Became Branded Products," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(3), pages 461-502, September.
  18. Gerben Bakker, 2000. "Book Reviews," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(4), pages 222-223.
  19. Gerben Bakker, 2000. "Book Reviews," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 172-174.

Chapters

  1. Gerben Bakker, 2018. "Innovation and Technical Change," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Matthias Blum & Christopher L. Colvin (ed.), An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, chapter 25, pages 211-222, Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. Gerben Bakker, 2018. "Productivity, Innovation and Social Savings," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Matthias Blum & Christopher L. Colvin (ed.), An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, chapter 47, pages 405-416, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  4. Gerben Bakker, 2007. "The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890–1940," Advances in Austrian Economics, in: The Evolution of Consumption: Theories and Practices, pages 93-137, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Books

  1. Bakker,Gerben, 2008. "Entertainment Industrialised," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521898546.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Bakker, Gerben, 2021. "Infrastructure killed the electric car," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112691, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Broadbent, Gail Helen & Allen, Cameron Ian & Wiedmann, Thomas & Metternicht, Graciela Isabel, 2022. "Accelerating electric vehicle uptake: Modelling public policy options on prices and infrastructure," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 155-174.

  2. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-156, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.

    Cited by:

    1. Fioramonti, Lorenzo & Coscieme, Luca & Costanza, Robert & Kubiszewski, Ida & Trebeck, Katherine & Wallis, Stewart & Roberts, Debra & Mortensen, Lars F. & Pickett, Kate E. & Wilkinson, Richard & Ragnar, 2022. "Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    2. Andrew Beauchamp, 2020. "Humane Capital: A Reexamination of Catholic Social Teachings in Light of the Shift to Human Capital," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 79(4), pages 1209-1240, September.

  3. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 341, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

    Cited by:

    1. Klein, Alexander & Crafts, Nicholas, 2023. "Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing Productivity across U.S. States: What the Long-Run Data Show," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 660, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. Crafts, Nicholas, 2019. "The Sources of British Economic Growth since the Industrial Revolution: Not the Same Old Story," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 430, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    3. Eoin McLaughlin & Cristián Ducoing & Les Oxley, 2024. "Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850–2018," NBER Chapters, in: Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Fukao, Kyoji & Settsu, Tokihiko & Makino, Tatsuji, 2020. "Human Capital and Economic Growth in Japan: 1885-2015," Economic Review, Hitotsubashi University, vol. 71(2), pages 175-204, April.
    5. Michael D. Bordo & Arunima Sinha, 2023. "The 1932 Federal Reserve Open‐Market Purchases as a Precedent for Quantitative Easing," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 55(5), pages 1177-1212, August.
    6. Fioramonti, Lorenzo & Coscieme, Luca & Costanza, Robert & Kubiszewski, Ida & Trebeck, Katherine & Wallis, Stewart & Roberts, Debra & Mortensen, Lars F. & Pickett, Kate E. & Wilkinson, Richard & Ragnar, 2022. "Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    7. Alexander J. Field, 2023. "The decline of US manufacturing productivity between 1941 and 1948," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(4), pages 1163-1190, November.
    8. Andrew Beauchamp, 2020. "Humane Capital: A Reexamination of Catholic Social Teachings in Light of the Shift to Human Capital," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 79(4), pages 1209-1240, September.
    9. Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán, 2024. "The Global Sanitary Revolution in Historical Perspective," Working Papers 0247, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    10. Bakker, Gerben, 2021. "Infrastructure killed the electric car," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112691, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. John Fernald & Robert Inklaar, 2022. "The UK Productivity Puzzle in an International Comparative Perspective," Working Papers 020, The Productivity Institute.

  4. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2015. "A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," Economic Research Papers 269726, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Nikollaq Pano & Ira Gjika, 2021. "American Advocacy to Education System Development: The Case of Albania," International Journal of Innovation and Economic Development, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 7(6), pages 24-34, February.
    2. Marianna Epicoco & Magali Jaoul-Grammare & Anne Plunket, 2022. "Radical technologies, recombinant novelty and productivity growth: a cliometric approach," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 673-711, April.
    3. Nicholas Crafts, 2016. "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: Exploring the Numbers," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(5), pages 57-60, May.
    4. Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, 2015. "Economic Impossibilities for our Grandchildren?," NBER Working Papers 21807, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Antonin Bergeaud & Gilbert Cette & Rémy Lecat, 2018. "The role of production factor quality and technology diffusion in twentieth-century productivity growth," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 12(1), pages 61-97, January.
    6. Klein, Alexander & Crafts, Nicholas, 2015. "Agglomeration Externalities and Productivity Growth : U.S. Cities in the Railroad Era, 1880-1930," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 235, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    7. Crafts, Nicholas & Klein, Alexander, 2015. "Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth: U.S. Cities, 1880-1930," CEPR Discussion Papers 10673, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    8. Nicholas Crafts, 2017. "Is Slow Economic Growth the ‘New Normal’ for Europe?," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 45(3), pages 283-297, September.

  5. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Pierre Cotterlaz & Etienne Fize, 2021. "Information in the First Globalization: News Agencies and Trade," Working Papers 2021-02, CEPII research center.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    3. Pierre Cotterlaz, 2021. "Three essays on spatial frictions [Trois essais sur les frictions spatiales]," SciencePo Working papers Main tel-03436173, HAL.

  6. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the industrial revolution," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 51527, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Dejan Ravšelj & Aleksander Aristovnik, 2020. "The Impact of Public R&D Subsidies and Tax Incentives on Business R&D Expenditures," International Journal of Economics & Business Administration (IJEBA), International Journal of Economics & Business Administration (IJEBA), vol. 0(1), pages 160-179.
    2. Männasoo, Kadri & Meriküll, Jaanika, 2020. "Credit constraints and R&D over the boom and bust: Firm-level evidence from Central and Eastern Europe," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 44(2).
    3. Aladino Fernandez-Blanco & Joaquin Villanueva-Balsera & Vicente Rodriguez-Montequin & Henar Moran-Palacios, 2020. "Key Factors for Project Crowdfunding Success: An Empirical Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-19, January.
    4. Sanandaji, Tino & Lakomaa, Erik, 2016. "Care, Commons and Entrepreneurship," SSE Working Paper Series in Economic History 2016:2, Stockholm School of Economics.
    5. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    6. Siegloch, Sebastian & Lichter, Andreas & Löffler, Max & Isphording, Ingo E. & Nguyen, Thu-Van & Poege, Felix, 2021. "Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation," CEPR Discussion Papers 16702, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. Niklas Elert & Magnus Henrekson, 2019. "The collaborative innovation bloc: A new mission for Austrian economics," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 32(4), pages 295-320, December.
    8. Yu Lu & Yaqi Zhao & Yuhan Li & Yuhe Cao, 2023. "Direct Tax Burden, Financing Constraints, and Innovation-Based Output," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-21, October.
    9. Mohammad Keyhani & Yuval Deutsch & Anoop Madhok & Moren Lévesque, 2022. "Exploration-exploitation and acquisition likelihood in new ventures," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(3), pages 1475-1496, March.
    10. Crafts, Nicholas & Bakker, Gerben & Woltjer, Pieter, 2015. "A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CEPR Discussion Papers 10995, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    11. Zheng, Zhijie & Huang, Chien-Yu & Wan, Xi, 2020. "Human Capital and Income Inequality in a Monetary Schumpeterian Growth Model," MPRA Paper 101912, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Andrea Mina & Henry Lahr, 2018. "The pecking order of innovation finance," LEM Papers Series 2018/31, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    13. Sá, Elisabete S. & Pinho, José Carlos M.R. de, 2019. "Effect of entrepreneurial framework conditions on R&D transfer to new and growing firms: The case of European Union innovation-driven countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 47-58.
    14. Christophe Bell'ego & David Benatia & Vincent Dortet-Bernardet, 2023. "The Chained Difference-in-Differences," Papers 2301.01085, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.
    15. Vladyslav Zymovets' & Inna Shovkun, 2015. "The innovation activity financing's conceptual frame work and foreign experience: lessons for Ukraine," Ukrainian Journal Ekonomist, Yuriy Kovalenko, issue 1, pages 10-14, January.
    16. Joao Estevao, 2022. "An Analysis of the Impact of the 2030 Agreement on R&D Intensity in the Energy Sector," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 12(4), pages 204-216, July.
    17. Kadri Männasoo & Jaanika Merikull, 2015. "The impact of firm financing constraints on R&D over the business cycle," Bank of Estonia Working Papers wp2015-3, Bank of Estonia, revised 30 Dec 2015.
    18. Muhammad Kaleem Khan & Ahmad Kaleem & Salman Zulfiqar & Umair Akram, 2019. "Innovation Investment: Behaviour Of Chinese Firms Towards Financing Sources," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(07), pages 1-29, October.
    19. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 341, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    20. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    21. Thiago Caliari & Philipe Scherer Mendes & Márcia Rapini & Camila Tolentino, 2021. "Technological Cumulativeness and Innovation in Brazilian Manufacturing Industry: Evidences from Brazilian Innovation Surveys 2008, 2011, and 2014," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 12(2), pages 876-898, June.
    22. Sewaid, Ahmed & Garcia-Cestona, Miguel & Silaghi, Florina, 2021. "Resolving information asymmetries in financing new product development: The case of reward-based crowdfunding," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(10).

  7. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Giuseppe Cornelli, 2017. "The role of culture in urban contexts," IRCrES Working Paper 201703, CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    3. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    4. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  8. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  9. Bakker, Gerben, 2010. "The evolution of the British entertainment business: film, music and videogames," Economic History Working Papers 37336, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    3. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  10. Bakker, Gerben, 2009. "Time and productivity growth in services: how motion pictures industrialized entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 27866, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  11. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 22314, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.

  12. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Trading facts: Arrow's fundamental paradox and the emergence of global news networks, 1750-1900," Economic History Working Papers 22519, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    4. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    5. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  13. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Economic History Working Papers 22316, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Allègre L. Hadida & Joseph Lampel & W. David Walls & Amit Joshi, 2021. "Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix: a tale of two institutional logics," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 45(2), pages 213-238, June.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.

  14. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.
    3. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    4. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 22314, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  15. Bakker, Gerben, 2003. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927," Economic History Working Papers 22366, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution," Economic History Working Papers 54518, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    3. Borowiecki, Karol Jan & Dahl, Christian Møller, 2021. "What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    4. Michael Pokorny & John Sedgwick, 2010. "Profitability trends in Hollywood, 1929 to 1999: somebody must know something1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(1), pages 56-84, February.
    5. Laussel, Didier & Lahmandi-Ayed, Rim, 2010. "Natural oligopolies with exogenous sunk costs: A non-Suttonian result," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(5), pages 844-854, September.
    6. John Sedgwick & Michael Pokorny, 2005. "The film business in the United States and Britain during the 1930s," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(1), pages 79-112, February.
    7. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    8. Etro, Federico, 2018. "The Economics of Renaissance Art," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 78(2), pages 500-538, June.
    9. Mark Lorenzen & Lars Frederiksen, 2005. "On the Economics of Innovation Projects Product Experimentation in the Music Industry," DRUID Working Papers 05-23, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies.
    10. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.
    11. Lorenzen, Mark & Täube, Florian Arun, 2008. "Breakout from Bollywood? The roles of social networks and regulation in the evolution of Indian film industry," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 14(3), pages 286-299, September.
    12. Rennings, Klaus & Markewitz, Peter & Vögele, Stefan, 2009. "How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants," ZEW Discussion Papers 09-021, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    13. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    14. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    15. Borowiecki, Karol Jan, 2019. "The Origins of Creativity: The Case of the Arts in the United States since 1850," Discussion Papers on Economics 3/2019, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics.
    16. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 22314, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    17. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

Articles

  1. Gerben Bakker, 2021. "Infrastructure killed the electric car," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 6(10), pages 947-948, October.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Gerben Bakker & Nicholas Crafts & Pieter Woltjer, 2019. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: The United States, 1899–1941," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(622), pages 2267-2294.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: How firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(10), pages 1793-1814.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 1036-1063, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Crafts, Nicholas & Bakker, Gerben & Woltjer, Pieter, 2015. "A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CEPR Discussion Papers 10995, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Jordi McKenzie, 2023. "The economics of movies (revisited): A survey of recent literature," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(2), pages 480-525, April.
    4. Bakker, Gerben & Crafts, Nicholas & Woltjer, Pieter, 2017. "The Sources of Growth in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 341, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    5. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    6. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  5. Bakker, Gerben, 2006. "The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram's International Businesses, 1945–1998," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(1), pages 81-123, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2013. "Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution," Economic History Working Papers 54518, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    3. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    4. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.

  6. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  7. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "Selling French Films on Foreign Markets: The International Strategy of a Medium-Sized Film Company," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(1), pages 45-76, March.

    Cited by:

    1. McMahon, James, 2015. "What Makes Hollywood Run? Capitalist Power, Risk and the Control of Social Creativity," EconStor Theses, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 157994, October.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. McMahon, James, 2022. "The Political Economy of Hollywood: Capitalist Power and Cultural Production; introduction," EconStor Open Access Book Chapters, in: The Political Economy of Hollywood: Capitalist Power and Cultural Production, pages 1-10, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    4. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    5. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    6. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    7. McMahon, James, 2015. "Risk and Capitalist Power: Conceptual Tools for Studying the Political Economy of Hollywood," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 3(2), pages 28-54.

  8. Gerben Bakker, 2003. "Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 101-127.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.
    3. Orbach, Barak Y. & Einav, Liran, 2007. "Uniform prices for differentiated goods: The case of the movie-theater industry," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 129-153.
    4. John Sedgwick & Michael Pokorny, 2010. "Consumers as risk takers: Evidence from the film industry during the 1930s," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 74-99.
    5. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    6. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    7. M. Rimscha, 2013. "It’s not the economy, stupid! External effects on the supply and demand of cinema entertainment," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 37(4), pages 433-455, November.
    8. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    9. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  9. Bakker, Gerben, 2003. "Entertainment Industrialized: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(4), pages 579-585, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2009. "Time and productivity growth in services: how motion pictures industrialized entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 27866, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

  10. Bakker, Gerben, 2001. "Stars and Stories: How Films Became Branded Products," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(3), pages 461-502, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Michael Pokorny & John Sedgwick, 2010. "Profitability trends in Hollywood, 1929 to 1999: somebody must know something1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(1), pages 56-84, February.
    3. John Sedgwick & Michael Pokorny, 2005. "The film business in the United States and Britain during the 1930s," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(1), pages 79-112, February.
    4. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    5. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.
    6. Guangchao Charles Feng, 2017. "The dynamics of the Chinese film industry: factors affecting Chinese audiences’ intentions to see movies," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(5), pages 658-676, October.
    7. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    8. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    9. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870," Economic History Working Papers 56333, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    10. Silver, Gregory Mead, 2010. "Economic effects of vertical disintegration: the American motion picture industry, 1945 to 1955," Economic History Working Papers 30043, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    11. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

Chapters

  1. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    Cited by:

    1. Lei Fang & Anne Hannusch & Pedro Silos, 2019. "Back to Becker: Producing Consumption with Time and Goods," 2019 Meeting Papers 1386, Society for Economic Dynamics.

  2. Gerben Bakker, 2007. "The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890–1940," Advances in Austrian Economics, in: The Evolution of Consumption: Theories and Practices, pages 93-137, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    See citations under working paper version above.

Books

  1. Bakker,Gerben, 2008. "Entertainment Industrialised," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521898546.

    Cited by:

    1. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945," Economic History Working Papers 47507, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    2. Gerben Bakker, 2011. "Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Hyeongwoo Kim & Liping Gao, 2017. "Consumer Spending on Entertainment and the Great Recession," Auburn Economics Working Paper Series auwp2017-07, Department of Economics, Auburn University.
    4. Bakker, Gerben, 2014. "How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models," Economic History Working Papers 59304, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    5. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940," Working Papers 5068, Economic History Society.
    6. John Sedgwick & Michael Pokorny, 2010. "Consumers as risk takers: Evidence from the film industry during the 1930s," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 74-99.
    7. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, May.
    8. Bakker, Gerben, 2004. "At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938," Economic History Working Papers 22348, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    9. Peter Tschmuck, 2013. "Technological change and cultural production," Chapters, in: Ruth Towse & Christian Handke (ed.), Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy, chapter 11, pages 116-122, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    10. Bakker, Gerben, 2007. "Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment," Economic History Working Papers 22314, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    11. Bakker, Gerben, 2012. "Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries," Economic History Working Papers 49081, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.

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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (10) 2013-11-29 2014-04-05 2015-12-20 2016-01-03 2016-01-18 2017-10-15 2017-11-26 2018-06-25 2021-04-19 2022-05-09. Author is listed
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  4. NEP-INO: Innovation (5) 2013-11-29 2016-01-18 2017-10-15 2017-11-26 2018-06-25. Author is listed
  5. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (5) 2015-12-20 2016-01-03 2017-10-15 2017-11-26 2018-06-25. Author is listed
  6. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2013-11-29
  7. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2022-05-09
  8. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2022-05-09
  9. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2014-10-03
  10. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2022-05-09
  11. NEP-PPM: Project, Program and Portfolio Management (1) 2013-11-29

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