We conduct a numerical analysis of bundling’s impact on a monopolist’s pricing and product choices and assess the implications for consumer welfare in cable television markets. Existing theory is ambiguous: for a given set of products, bundling likely transfers surplus from consumers to firms but also encourages products to be offered that might not be under à la carte pricing. Simulation of ‘‘...

The paper determines the effects of different influencing variables on the media company’s optimal subscription and advertising prices and editorial content. The company maximizes profit consisting of subscription and advertising revenue, minus the costs of content, advertising, and circulation, by setting the subscription and advertising prices and the amount of editorial content. Subscription...

A hatékony reklám leköti a figyelmet, az üzenete érthető, elfogadható és megjegyezhető, valamint serkenti vásárlást. komplex cél eléréséhez nem elegendő puszta információközlés, valamilyen kommunikációs többlet (pl. paradoxon) alkalmazása is indokolt lehet. Számos eltérő hatású paradoxon jöhet szóba. Jelen közlemény Osgood-féle szemantikus differenciál alkalmazásával, vizuális-kvantitatív szint...

cinema industry is one of the main elements of cultural development. development of cinema industry requires the identifying the various social, economic and cultural dimensions. this paper studies the economic characteristics of cinema in iran. in this regard, it is necessary to identify the determinants of demand for movies and their demand elasticities. the computed elasticities have useful ...

We present an empirical analysis of product differentiation using a new dynamic panel data set on film programming choice in a major U.S. metropolitan motion-pictures exhibition market. Using these data, we compute two measures of film programming choice, which allow us to investigate the determinants of strategic product differentiation in a multi-characteristics space. Our evidence is consist...

In most models of two-sided markets, demand on one market side depends on the numbers of consumers on the other market side, but not on their composition. We document that prices for advertisements in daily newspapers do not only depend on the number of readers, but also on their location, gender and wealth. Motivated by this, we propose a model of a two-sided market with heterogeneous consumer...

Terrorism and the Media This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist groups. This result is further supported by Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions, su...

Alignment of prokaryotic and vertebrate type II thymidine kinases (TK) (EC 2.7.1.21), such as that encoded by vaccinia virus (VVTK), reveals three conserved regions: designated domains I, III, and VII. Domains I and III of VVTK contain residues which closely resemble segments A (ATP) and B (Mg2+), respectively, of a Mg.ATP binding descriptor proposed previously (Walker, J.E., Saraster, M., Runs...

This paper presents an empirical assessment of movie theatre attendance in two major metropolitan markets and provides strong support for the importance of spatial characteristics in determining attendance. We consider the hypothesis that attendance at a particular movie theatre reflects a tension between two effects: a negative competition effect and a positive agglomeration effect. We find ev...

I use variation across markets in the timing of television’s introduction to identify its impact on voter turnout. The estimated e¤ect is signi…cantly negative, accounting for between a quarter and a half of the total decline in turnout since the 1950s. It is robust to a range of controls and alternative speci…cations, and interacts intuitively with county characteristics. I argue that substitu...