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Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

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Marie Connolly
Alan B. Krueger

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This paper 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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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 11282.

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