The film industry provides a myriad of interesting problems for economic contemplation.
From the initial concept of an idea through production, distribution and finally exhibition …

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of empirical studies of motion picture
performance published from 1977 to 2006 inclusive in the following five disciplines of the …

We develop an econometric model to study a setting in which a new product is launched first
in its domestic market and only at a later stage in foreign markets, and where the product's …

Everyone knows that the movie business is risky. But how risky is it? Do strategies exist that
reduce risk? We investigate these questions using a sample of over 2000 motion pictures …

Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that" nobody
knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and …

We estimate the probability distributions of budgets, revenues, returns, and profits to G‐, PG‐
, PG13‐, and R‐rated movies. The distributions are non‐Gaussian and show a self‐similar …

Piracy is one of the most challenging problems faced by the motion picture industry. The
Motion Picture Association of America estimates that US studios lose more than …

Rapidly advancing mobile technology has made mobile games a leader in the global games
market. As the market size of mobile games has grown, the competition has also accelerated …

The movies are an ideal testing ground for information cascade models. One can observe
the dynamics of box office revenues from theopening'to the end of the run. To study the …

This paper illustrates the power of modern statistical modelling in understanding processes
characterised by data that are skewed and have heavy tails. Our particular substantive …