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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang Yue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Economics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2020.1812477