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

• Superior document: Contemporary political economy series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); De Vany, Arthur S.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary political economy series.
• Physical Description: xvii, 308 p. :; ill.

Table of 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"?