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| Author: | Akdede, S.H. King, J.T. |
| Title: | Demand for and productivity analysis of Turkish public theater |
| Journal: | Journal of Cultural Economics
2006 : VOL 30:3, p. 219-231 |
| Index terms: | demand productivity theatre industry Turkey |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper estimates a demand function for live theater provided by the General Directorate of State Theaters in Turkey. It is shown that demand is more elastic in less developed cities, that attendance is not significantly affected by various qualitative variables, and that the government's practice of offering free passes to government officials is an ineffective way of increasing paid attendance. Comedies and musicals both show significantly higher attendance. It is also found that there is inefficiency in state theaters in Turkey through a performance of plays equation in which we evaluate the determinants of the number of performances per play. |
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