The effects of broadband on the consumption film at theatres in Brazil

Marislei Nishijima, Ticiana da Justa and Thais Souza

Applied Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 27, issue 8, 637-641

Abstract: We use a large emerging economy’s broadband adoption as a quasi-natural experiment to study the effects of Internet access the consumption of films at theaters. Based on individual-level large samples, available for 2002/3 and 2008/9, we find a negative effect, and we are not able to rule out the hypothesis of film piracy since neither DVD nor cable TV, the more important legal substitute goods, have their consumption increased due to broadband.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1728224

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