Policy Seminars
Speaker: Alan Sorensen |
Stanford University |
Topic: The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale |
Date/Place/Time:
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 1:30PM-3:00PM UCLA Anderson Cornell Hall D313 |
ABSTRACT: We develop an equilibrium model of ticket resale in which buyers' decisions in the primary market, including costly efforts to “arrive early" to buy underpriced tickets, are based on rational expectations of resale market outcomes. We estimate the parameters of the model using a novel dataset that combines transaction data from both the primary and secondary markets for a sample of major rock concerts. Our estimates indicate that while resale improves allocative efficiency, half of the welfare gain from reallocation is offset by increases in costly effort in the arrival game and transaction costs in the resale market. |
Link to paper (if available): Click here |