Gil, Ricard - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7 (2015) 2, pp. 162-91
I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique dataset collected from Variety magazine issues between 1945 and 1955. With information on prices, revenues, and theater ownership for an unbalanced panel of 393 theaters in 26 cities, I find...