TY  - JOUR
AU  - Connolly,Marie
AU  - Krueger,Alan B.
TI  - Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11282
PY  - 2005
Y2  - April 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11282
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11282.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Marie Connolly

Alan B. Krueger
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-4046
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: akrueger@princeton.edu
AB  - This paper considers economic issues and trends in the rock and roll industry, broadly defined. The analysis focuses on concert revenues, the main source of performers ' income. Issues considered include: price measurement; concert price acceleration in the 1990s; the increased concentration of revenue among performers; reasons for the secondary ticket market; methods for ranking performers; copyright protection; and technological change.
ER  -