Pay-per-view television : consequences of a ban

Claus Thustrup Hansen (University of Copenhagen and EPRU), Søren Kyhl (University of Copenhagen)

In the future, a ban of pay-per-view broadcasting will arise on certain events included on national lists in each EU country as put forward in the new ''Television Without Frontiers'' Directive from the 16th of April 1997. This paper analyses theoretically the consequences of such ban when the alternative is financing the events purely by TV-commercials. Results on economic efficiency does not provide much reason for a ban. However, a ban increases consumer surplus which may support a ban for distributional reasons.

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Year of publication:	July 1997
Authors:	Kreiner, Claus Thustrup ; Kyhl, Søren
Publisher:	Copenhagen, Denmark : Economic Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen Business School
Subject:	Pay-per-view Television \| Commercials \| Regulation \| Privater Fernsehsender \| Commercial television \| Rundfunkfinanzierung \| Broadcasting finance \| Fernsehwerbung \| Television advertising \| Theorie \| Theory

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 24 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper series / Economic Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. - Copenhagen : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2733585-9. - Vol. 1997, 12
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/81966 [Handle]
Classification:	L50 - Regulation and Industrial Policy. General ; L82 - Entertainment; Media (Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Broadcasting, Publishing, etc.)
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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