On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

Hui, Kai-Lung; Png, Ivan P. L.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.297376

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On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

9 Pages Posted: 18 Jan 2002

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Kai-Lung Hui

National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing

Ivan P. L. Png

National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the impact of economic incentives on the international supply of big-screen movies. More particularly, we also study the impact of a 1998 increase in the term of copyright on U.S. movie production.

Keywords: Copyright, movie, economic incentives

JEL Classification: L11, L82, K00, Z11

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Hui, Kai-Lung and Png, Ivan P. L., On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=297376 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.297376