| Title: |
DEAD POETS ’ PROPERTY- DO STRONGER COPYRIGHTS INCREASE PRICE? * |
| Authors: |
Xing Li; Jel Codes O |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://economics.uchicago.edu/workshops/Moser Petra Dead Poets Property.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2013 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Description: |
This paper exploits a differential increase in copyright under the U.K. Copyright Act of 1814- in favor of books by dead authors – to examine whether policies that strengthen copyrights increase price. Contrary to existing results, difference-indifferences analyses, which compare changes in the price of books by dead and living authors before and after 1814, reveal a substantial increase in price. By comparison, placebo regressions for books by dead authors that did not benefit from stronger copyrights yield no evidence of a differential increase in price. Historical evidence indicates that intertemporal price discrimination is a key mechanism by which copyrights increase price. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.396.300; http://economics.uchicago.edu/workshops/Moser Petra Dead Poets Property.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.396.300; http://economics.uchicago.edu/workshops/Moser Petra Dead Poets Property.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.DA78DA13 |
| Database: |
BASE |