Impact on productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books, UK and Germany

Olczak, Matthew (2015). Impact on productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books, UK and Germany. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851731

The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) undertakes interdisciplinary research into competition policy and regulation that has real-world policy relevance without compromising academic rigour.

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The Centre was established in September 2004, building on the pre-existing Centre for Competition and Regulation (CCR), with a grant from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). It currently boasts a total of 26 faculty members (including the Director and a Political Science Mentor), 4 full- and part-time researchers and 23 PhD students.

Data description (abstract)

This dataset aims to provide additional evidence
of the effects of government intervention on productivity by studying the impact of the abolition of the Net Book Agreement (NBA) in the UK in the mid 1990s. The dataset uses the UK book industry pre-abolition as a comparator to UK performance post-abolition. It also compares the UK book market to the German book market, which - like several other European countries - continue to maintain fixed book price systems. The principal data used to compute productivity was obtained from the database: AMADEUS. This provides financial information for approximately nine million public and private companies across Europe. Attention was restricted to book retailers and publishers with five or more employees (although data was often not available for firms this small).

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