The effects of movie piracy on box-office revenue: an empirical analysis of the Chinese movie market
I evaluate the substitution effects of pirated movies – the unlicensed online movies available on file-sharing websites – on their genuine counterparts, and explore the institutional and economic causes of China’s high level of movie piracy. To do this, I build a dataset including information on onl...
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Applied Economics |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2020.1812477 |