"Nobody cares about Hong Kong film." I was on the set of a Hong Kong film shoot in October 2021, and a film director1 that I have known since I started research on film/TV production here in 2005 uttered this to me, as he had many times over recent years. The director's remark referred to his...

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

This paper considers discrimination in the market for managerial positions by following the career paths of film directors. Film directors manage multi-million projects and are hired on a project by project basis. We gather data on directors’ film projects from the time they enter the...

Movies and web series are the most popular destinations of crowdfunding, and various approaches have been followed by project initiators. Filmmakers may use specialized or general crowdfunding platforms to raise money, propose fixed or flexible budgets, and use reward-based or equity-based...

Motherhood reduces women’s wages in the general economy, especially those in the higher percentile of wage earners. This happens because women tend to get detached from the labor force after having children. Does this happen in Hollywood however? In this paper, I have found out how many movies...

Two great movie directors were both born in 1930. One of them, Jean-Luc Godard, revolutionized filmmaking during his 30s, and declined in creativity thereafter. In contrast, Clint Eastwood did not direct his first movie until he had passed the age of 40, and did not emerge as an important...

There exists significant hype regarding how much machine learning and incorporating social media data can improve forecast accuracy in commercial applications. To assess if the hype is warranted, we use data from the film industry in simulation experiments that contrast econometric approaches...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that counterfeiting/piracy can help create online word-of-mouth (WOM) and through this boost demand but how powerful is such WOM? To answer this question, we conduct a descriptive study with some attempts to establish near causality. We estimate the impact of piracy...

This paper examines how vertical integration affects non-price efficiency in the movie theater industry. Adopting a discrete choice framework, we derive consumer welfare under capacity constraints and fixed prices, and show that allocating capacity proportionally to demand is efficient. Applying...

After long-term downturn of sales of Japanese films and dominance of Hollywood films in the Japanese film market during 1960's and 1980's, Japanese film industry revived from the latter part of 1990's with evolution of interfirm film production and distribution alliances. In Japanese film...

This article analyzes how social network structures affect career success in a project-based labor market. The literature on team success has shown that teams perform well if they integrate both weak and strong ties simultaneously. Applying the literature to careers in the creative industries,...

Some economists assert that as valuable works transition from copyrighted status and fall into the public domain they will be underexploited and their value dissipated. Others insist instead that without an owner to control their use, valuable public domain works will be overexploited or...

This paper discusses and analyses Netflix's financial performance over the past 4 years between 2016 and 2019, with the use of financial ratios. Netflix is well known to many as a major streaming platform and the company that changed traditional DVD players as the main source for movies and TV...

In a simple static model of differentiated experience goods supplied by a single seller, we show that both a uniform price equilibrium and a price signalling equilibrium coexist. This is in contrast to the received wisdom that price signalling of quality is nonviable in static settings. We also...

Die Traumfabrik Hollywood dominiert seit Dekaden die internationale Filmindustrie. Die großen amerikanischen Studios produzieren und vertreiben Filme, wobei sie alle Innovationen des 20ten Jahrhundert, von Fernsehen über VHS bis Blu-ray, überstanden haben. Die Digitalisierung bringt...

I evaluate the substitution effects of pirated movies - the unlicensed online movies available on file-sharing websites - on their genuine counterparts, and explore the institutional and economic causes of China's high level of movie piracy. To do this, I build a dataset including information on...

Analyzing the success of movies has always been a popular research topic in the film industry. Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in the movie industry have been applied to modeling the financial success of the movie industry. The new contribution of this research combined...

Pros and cons of motion picture investment -- Macroeconomic trends and studio co-financing -- Tax and other "soft money" benefits and limited partnerships -- Welcome to the world of independents -- The evolution of revenue streams -- COVID and post-COVID -- The rise of the streamers -- Cast of...

The markets for audiovisual content are subject to dynamic change. Where once "traditional" (free-to-air, cable, satellite) television was dominating, i.e. linear audiovisual media services, markets display nowadays strong growth of different types of video-on-demand (VoD), i.e. nonlinear...

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

This paper explores new data sources on multi-lateral trade in films among EU countries and with the US in offline cinema and in online video-on-demand (VoD) distribution. We observe variations in trade patterns across countries and films and explore how they affect cultural diversity. We find...

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...