Hollywood economics
Subtitle: how extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry
By: Arthur De Vany.
Series: Contemporary political economy series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: The market for motion pictures : rank, revenue and survival; title: Bose-Einstein dynamics and adaptive contracting in the motion picture industry; title: Quality evaluations and the breakdown of statistical herding in the dynamics of box-office revenue; title: Uncertainty in the movie industry : can star power reduce the terror of the box office?; title: Does Hollywood make too many R-rated movies? : risk, stochastic dominance and the illusion of expectation; title: Big budgets, big openings and legs : analysis of the blockbuster strategy; title: Motion picture antitrust : the Paramount cases revisited; title: Was antitrust action that broke up the movie studios good for the movies? : evidence from the stock market; title: Stochastic market structure : concentration measures and motion picture antitrust; title: Motion picture profit, the stable Paretian hypothesis and the curse of the superstar; title: Contracting with stars when "nobody knows anything"; title: How extreme uncertainty shapes the movie business; title: Epilogue : can you manage a business when "nobody knows anything"?