Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
investigate if – in contrast to the standard model – the death of a writer has an impact on demand for his/her books, that is, we … evaluate the impact of a writer's death on the probability of entering in the bestseller list in the period immediately … following his/her death. Controlling for age, gender, literary prizes, publishers' relevance and time dummies we find that a …