Hollywood economics how extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry / Arthur De Vany.

Author/creator De Vany, Arthur
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxvii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesContemporary political economy series
Partial contents The market for motion pictures : rank, revenue and survival -- Bose-Einstein dynamics and adaptive contracting in the motion picture industry -- Quality evaluations and the breakdown of statistical herding in the dynamics of box-office revenue -- Uncertainty in the movie industry : can star power reduce the terror of the box office? -- Does Hollywood make too many R-rated movies? : risk, stochastic dominance and the illusion of expectation -- Big budgets, big openings and legs : analysis of the blockbuster strategy -- Motion picture antitrust : the Paramount cases revisited -- Was antitrust action that broke up the movie studios good for the movies? : evidence from the stock market -- Stochastic market structure : concentration measures and motion picture antitrust -- Motion picture profit, the stable Paretian hypothesis and the curse of the superstar -- Contracting with stars when "nobody knows anything" -- How extreme uncertainty shapes the movie business -- Epilogue : can you manage a business when "nobody knows anything"?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [298]-304) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003046987
ISBN0415312604
ISBN0415312612 (pbk.)

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