The Silent Movie Theater

An Auction Mechanism Considering Seat Reservations in Movie Theater Services

This paper proposes a new auction mechanism with seat reservations in movie theaters using an interdisciplinary approach. In movie theater services, the movie price is generally fixed, not depending on the quality of contents or the theater seat. It implies that such a service mechanism by fixed pricing might not reflect the value of movie contents. In this study, a new mechanism of theater ser...

Fly Movie Theater Reveals Secrets of How Insects See the World

Estimating a War of Attrition: The Case of the U.S. Movie Theater Industry∗

This paper estimates the impact of competition and exogenous demand decline on the exit process of movie theaters in the U.S. from 1949 to 1955. I modify Fudenberg and Tirole (1986)’s model of exit in a duopoly with incomplete information to be used in an oligopoly. I estimate this model with panel data, using variations in TV diffusion across households and other market characteristics to iden...

Phosphate: the Silent Challenge

Phosphorus (P) is one of the most vital elements for all living organisms which acts as aconstituent of essential biomolecules such as nucleic acids, phospholipids, and phosphosugars,and as a major contributor to almost all metabolic reactions including photosynthesis,respiration, and energy delivery. It is one of the most needed nutrients for plant growth anddevelopment. Despite high levels of...

Theater for the Emotions

During the course of this term, we explored how theater and science interact. It seemed to me that a challenge facing us at the beginning of the class was to find out how science, a stereotypically dry and factual area, could be turned into a show that would capture the attention and emotion of an audience. It was no surprise to me that we found ourselves gripped in the passions of the science ...