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At the movies : avoiding head-to-head competition on the big screen ; the economics of movie distribution

Filson, Darren; Fabre, Fernando; Nava, Alfredo; … - 2000

This paper provides theoretical explanations for devices that movie distributors use to avoid head-to-head competition. We use a simple static model to show how revenuse sharing exhibition contracts providex multiplex owners with incentives to take cross effects on demand into account. Then we...

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‘Margin Call’: Using Film to Explore Behavioural Aspects of the Financial Crisis

Werner, Andrea - In: Journal of Business Ethics 122 (2014) 4, pp. 643-654

The aim of this article is to show how the critically acclaimed and award winning film Margin Call may be used in … business ethics teaching. Set in a fictional investment bank at the dawn of the financial crisis, the film zooms in on the …-backed securities market. The film offers rich material for analysis of behaviours that contributed to the crisis. The article will set …

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Dynamic Common Agency, Vertical Integration, and Investment : The Economics of Movie Distribution

Filson, Darren - 2003

This paper analyzes the impact of vertical integration on investment and other strategies in a dynamic common agency framework. Movie distribution is used as a motivating example. The model matches several facts about movie distribution; distributors avoid head-to-head new hit releases, hits...

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Dead pledges : debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture

McClanahan, Annie - 2017

Behavioral economics and the credit-crisis novel -- Credit, characterization, personification -- Photography and foreclosure -- Houses of horror -- Coda : the living indebted (on students and sabotage)

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Decision making under asymmetric information in markets for experience goods : empirical evidence of signaling effects on consumer perceptions

Kaimann, Daniel - 2014

Film- und Videospielindustrie untersucht. Zum anderen werden klassische ökonometrische Analysemethoden um neue qualitativ … von proprietären Daten aus der Film- und Videospielindustrie wird gezeigt, dass insbesondere Markenerweiterungsprodukte … entertainment market do not only differ in terms of the film and video game industry but also by the econometric approaches …

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Strategic microscheduling of movies

Dürr, Niklas S.; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...

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