I analyze how variation in firm boundaries affect economic outcomes in the movie industry. Specifically, I focus on movie distributors and their contracts with exhibitors to show their movies on their screens. I argue that vertical integration solves the distortion on movie run length created by...

This paper empirically examines the interplay of formal and relational contracting in the Spanish movie industry. To do so, I test implications from well-established theories on relational contracting using a unique data set from a Spanish movie exhibitor that contains detailed information on...