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Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Button, Patrick - 2019

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment …, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives … outcomes in states before and after they adopt incentives, relative to similar states that did not adopt incentives over the …

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Movies

Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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Taxes and the Labor Supply of the Stars

Keniston, Daniel; Peralta, Abigail Allison M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do high taxes cause superstars to work less? We test this hypothesis using complete data on Hollywood movie stars' labor supply from 1927 to 2014. Changes to marginal tax rates in high tax brackets have no significant effect on the number of films a movie star makes each year. However, in years...

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McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression : Evidence from Hollywood

Tan, Hui Ren; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study a far-reaching episode of demagoguery in American history. From the late 1940s to 1950s, anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others gripped the nation. Hundreds of professionals in Hollywood were accused of having ties with the communist. We show that these...

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Firm Responses to State Hiring Subsidies : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Tax Credit Formula

Hyman, Benjamin G.; Freedman, Matthew; Khanna, Shantanu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine firm responses to location-based hiring subsidies. We leverage institutional features of the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC), a large-scale business incentive program that incorporates best practices from prior job creation policies. The CCTC award selection procedure combines...

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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances

Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010

"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution...

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Analyzing the Welfare Impacts of Full-line Forcing Contracts

Ho, Justin - 2010

Theoretical investigations have examined both anti-competitive and efficiency-inducing rationales for vertical bundling, making empirical evidence important to understanding its welfare implications. We use an extensive dataset on full-line forcing contracts between movie distributors and video...

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Innovators : Filmmakers

Galenson, David W. - 2010

John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental filmmakers: both believed images were more important to movies than words, and considered movies a form of entertainment. Their styles developed gradually over long careers, and both made the films that are generally considered their greatest...

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The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry

Ho, Justin - 2008

We provide an empirical study of bundling in a supply chain, referred to as fullline forcing. We use an extensive dataset on contracts between video retailers and movie distributors to analyze the choices made on both sides of the market: which distributors offer full-line forcing contracts,...

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Testing the Melitz Model of Trade : An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2008

In this paper, we develop a simple empirical method to test two alternative versions of the Melitz (2003) model, one with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product variety (relative to domestic sales per variety) are...

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