The Demand for Books Estimated by Means of Consumer Survey Data

Abstract

book demand, income elasticity, price elasticities, consumer survey data,

Fiscal and economic aspects of book consumption in the European Union

“…The income elasticity for books in Spain was found to be 1.65. A similar result was found in two studies of the book market: in Denmark the income elasticity was 1.97 (Hjorth-Andersen 2000) and in Norway it was 1.3 (Ringstad and Løyland 2006). The price elasticity was found to be well below -1 across all three studies.…”

“…Households with children 7 through 19 years old, single person households or households with a higher income were more likely to buy books (Ringstad and Løyland 2006). Similarly, in Sweden, the reduced VAT was reported to have had a greater benefit in larger urban centres (Ahlmark 2003, p. 14).…”

“…The model of tax concessions for cultural goods and services in Europe is introduced and analysed economically in an important study by O'Hagan (1998), while Schuster (2006) provides insights on tax incentives in cultural policy with a particular focus on the USA. Recent publications on cultural VAT rates include country analysis to estimate consumption as a result of changes in the fiscal policy (Gesko 2013;Hjorth-Andersen 2000;MvF 2014;PrietoRodriguez et al 2005;Ringstad and Løyland 2006), to focus on the nature of the policy (Campbell 2013;Colbjørnsen 2014;Hemels 2009), or to estimate the revenue raised by the VAT (O'Hagan 2003). Publications on the relationship between pricing and cultural consumption remain dissociated from VAT rate policy.…”

The Elasticity of Demand for Books: The Research of the North-Western Federal District Book Market

“…Практическая значимость дохода как детерминанты спроса хорошо объясне-на в работе [Ringstad, Løyland, 2006]. Авторы утверждают, что чувствительный к доходу спрос на книги, наряду с восходящим трендом доходов населения, обеспе-чивает рост рынка книг в будущем.…”

Determinants of book reading and library attendance in Colombia. A microeconometric approach

“…The available empirical literature addressing the topic in the field of cultural economics remains scarce and has mainly focused on the use of temporal series to estimate demand elasticities for books (Billintmayer, 1992;Hjorth-Andersen, 2000;Prieto-Rodríguez et al, 2005;Ringstand and Loyland, 2006;Palma et al, 2009) or, in the case of Spain, on participation studies analysing the purchase of books and periodicals, such as the works conducted by Escardíbul and Villarroya (2009) and Villarroya and Escardíbul (2010) or on exploring the factors influencing the decision to read and reading frequency Fernández-Blanco and Prieto-Rodríguez (2009), a work which ties in more closely with the present study. The literature remains even scarcer in the case of developing countries, prominent studies including those by Parra and Corzo (2008) analysing the impact of the National Reading and Libraries Plan on the number of books read in Colombia, or Muñoz-Cáceres (2012) into reading behaviour in Chile, in addition to the descriptive studies into reader behaviour and reading habits published by CERLAC (2012), or Gamboa and Reina (2006) for the Colombian Book Chamber.…”