Quasi-demand functions for Norwegian local public library-services
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The purpose of this paper is to present some results about the determinants of book-loans from local public libraries in Norway. The investigation is based on quasi-demand functions where travel time, as an indicator of the shadow price of book-loans, average personal income, information on the book stock, and on other media available at the library, are main explanatory variables. We use panel data for the period 2001-2004 based on the annual reports of the municipal libraries and socio-demographic characteristics of the municipalities. Some preliminary results suggest a fairly strong positive income effect and a somewhat smaller negative effect of the shadow price of book-loans. We also find a positive effect on book-loans of the gross growth of the stock of books. Moreover, the stock and gross growth of other media has a positive effect on book-loans as well. Thus other media at the libraries does not seem to have any crowding out effect on books, quite the contrary: Other media seems to stimulate book borrowing.
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