Professor Moul received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 2000. He specializes in empirical industrial organization, and his work to date has focused upon the economics of motion picture distribution.
All documents below are pdf files.
To download Adobe Acrobat Reader so you can read such pdf files, click here . Both papers show a number of distracting horizontal lines in their digital form. These lines will typically not be visible when printed. The conclusion these authors draw is that word of mouth is the dominant phenomenon in the motion picture industry. Since word of mouth is by definition unknown to initial consumers, this conclusion has strong implications regarding the applicability of traditional economic analysis to the industry.