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Beyond Rock and Roll: The Economic Impact of the Grateful Dead on a Local Economy

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For-profit popular music concerts, a seldom studied event, may create sizeable economic impacts in a local economy. Using information from a survey of more than 1,000 concert goers to a Grateful Dead performance in Las Vegas and RIMS II multipliers, we estimate income and employment impacts. We conclude that the potential large spill-overs effects of such an event should not be ignored.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154, U.S.A.

    Ricardo C. Gazel & R. Keith Schwer

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Gazel, R.C., Schwer, R.K. Beyond Rock and Roll: The Economic Impact of the Grateful Dead on a Local Economy. Journal of Cultural Economics 21, 41–55 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007372721259

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