Some Economics of Ticket Resale
研究了为何票务转售商能大幅加价转售门票，而主办方却无法阻止或从中获利，借鉴航空票价文献提出解释并回顾相关证据。
A large number of brokers and scalpers resell a significant fraction of event tickets at substantial markups and they manage to do so despite the fact that promoters and ticketing agencies do not support resell for profits and often attempt to block secondary market. Why can't promoters capture the profits from secondary markets or at least deter brokers from doing so? I present a simple explanation that borrows from the literature on airline ticket pricing and draw parallels with that literature. I review some evidence consistent with this explanation.