Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period

Megan MacGarvie, Petra Moser

NBER Working Paper No. 19521
Issued in October 2013

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We wish to thank Xing Li, Hoan Nguyen, and Alex Pitzer for excellent research assistance, Koleman Strumpf and conference participants at the Economics of Digitization: An Agenda for comments, and Stanford's Second-Year Graduate Research Program, the NBER Program on the Economics of Digitization, the Kauffman Foundation, and the National Science Foundation through CAREER Grant 1151180 for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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