Do Contemporary Plays Feature Fewer Roles? Some Empirical Evidence

Sacit Akdede (), Victor Ginsburgh and Aynur Uckac
Additional contact information
Aynur Uckac: Department of Public Finance, Adnan Menderes University, Nazilli Ä°Ä°BF, Aydin Turkey

No AWP-01-2018, ACEI Working Paper Series from Association for Cultural Economics International

Abstract: This paper shows that the number of roles in theatre plays has been decreasing over time. Playwrights seem to internalize the costs of producing plays with too many roles by downsizing. This downsizing is not a recent phenomenon: it is going for many decades. We also analyze which plays get produced. This paper uses a unique data set of repertory archives of Turkish State Theatres, covering plays from decades.

Keywords: Number of roles; cast size; Baumol cost disease; playwrights; Turkish State; Theatre (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2018-06, Revised 2018-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara and nep-knm
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://files.culturaleconomics.org/papers/AWP-01-2018.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cue:wpaper:awp-01-2018

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ACEI Working Paper Series from Association for Cultural Economics International Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Paul Crosby ().