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Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

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Connolly, Marie
Krueger, Alan B.

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This chapter considers economic issues and trends in the rock and roll industry, broadly defined. The analysis focuses on concert revenues, the main source of performers' income. Issues considered include: price measurement; concert price acceleration in the 1990s; the increased concentration of revenue among performers; reasons for the secondary ticket market; methods for ranking performers; copyright protection; and technological change.

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This chapter was published in: V.A. Ginsburgh & D. Throsby (ed.) , Elsevier, chapter 20, pages 667-719, 2006.

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V.A. Ginsburgh & D. Throsby (ed.), 2006. "Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture," Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Elsevier, edition 1, volume 1, number 1, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. David E. Giles, 2005. "Increasing Returns to Information in the U.S. Popular Music Industry," Econometrics Working Papers 0510, Department of Economics, University of Victoria. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Courty, Pascal & Pagliero, Mario, 2009. "The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers 7120, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. David E. Giles, 2005. "Survival of the Hippest: Life at the Top of the Hot 100," Econometrics Working Papers 0507, Department of Economics, University of Victoria. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Jin-Hyuk Kim, 2007. "Strategic Use of Copyright Protection to Deter Entry," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 7(1), pages 1765-1765. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Pascal Courty & Mario Pagliero, 2009. "Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry," Economics Working Papers ECO2009/05, European University Institute. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Florida, Richard & Mellander, Charlotta & Stolarick, Kevin, 2009. "That’s Entertainment - scale and scope economies in the location and clustering of the entertainment economy," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 158, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies. [Downloadable!]
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