Twenty years ago, there were all but a handful of scholarly studies published about the
economics of the motion picture industry. Over the first decade of the new millennium, this …

In this paper, I study the short-run effect of social distancing due to the COVID-19 outbreak
on movie demand and box-office revenue. Using longitudinal data on the Korean movie …

Previous studies have employed machine learning tools to classify films according to
success to guide a reduction in the degree of uncertainty of film production. We revisited the …

This paper aims to propose a method to measure the operational efficiency of the movie
theater businesses. The method is based on a bootstrap data envelopment approach to test …

Given the scarcity of data on video streaming consumption, few studies have attempted to
measure its effects on other traditional film media. To overcome this literature gap, we …

We strongly reject the hypothesis of theater design revenue neutrality using a large dataset
of Chinese theaters. Instead, we find large increasing returns in revenue from adding …

This dissertation studies the model selection in the synthetic control method and model
averaging in forecasting with an application to the movie industry. The first chapter estimates …

Tässä pro gradu-tutkielmassa tutkitaan budjetointia elokuvateattereissa. Elokuvateatterit
toimivat nopeasti muuttuvilla markkinoilla, jossa tarjonta ja kysyntä muuttuvat päivittäin …

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 …

This paper estimates the impact of Disney's acquisition of Pixar on the image quality of
Disney's animated feature films. Image quality is one of the explicit measurements for the …