- Title
- Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music
- Author(s)
- Marie Connolly Marie Connolly (Princeton University)
- Alan B. Krueger Alan Krueger (Princeton University and NBER)
- Abstract
- 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.
- Creation Date
- 2005-04
- Section URL ID
- IRS
- Paper Number
- 499
- URL
- https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01xs55mc05g/1/499.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- Z10, L82, O34
- Keyword(s)
- Rockonomics, concerts, superstars
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 1