id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_yumcnfzmmrh6ldri77okv6nxki G. Meloni The Great Beauty: Public Subsidies in the Italian Movie Industry 2015 17 .pdf application/pdf 7276 1260 91 We examine the impact of public subsidies in the Italian movie industry Keywords: movie industry; public subsidies; awards; box office. The prior literature focused on movie performance by considering the box office and tickets sold(see Bagella and Becchetti (1999), Jansen (2005), and McKenzie However, to really understand the impact of public subsidies for movies, it is necessary to introduce variables linked to the quality The aim is to provide an investigation of the impact of public subsidies on box-office revenues and to control for their possible impact on the quality of public subsidies; non-subsidized genres is a vector of interaction dummy variables Equations 1 and 2, is box-office revenue (expressed in euros and adjusted for inflation, base year 2011), which is obtained for each movie and genre from several expresses the revenue of a movie i as a function of public subsidies, if any, and genre, ./cache/work_yumcnfzmmrh6ldri77okv6nxki.pdf ./txt/work_yumcnfzmmrh6ldri77okv6nxki.txt