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Professor,
Dept. of Telecommunications.
Radio-TV Center, Room 310
(812) 855-6170
waterman 'at' indiana.edu
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My research and teaching interests center on the economics
of media and other communications industries, and more
generally, on the economics of information. Most of my
courses and research work have a policy or a business strategy
focus. Among my recent topics are ownership and market
structure in the cable television industry, the economics
of the movie industry and the economics of violence in
the media.
Primary Courses:
- T329: Cable/Broadband Communications
- T421: Telecommunications Economics
- T422: Business Applications in Telecommunications
- T532: Economics of the Mass Media.
- T535: Economics of Information.
- T560: Business Strategies of Communications Firms
Bio
David Waterman is Professor in the Department
of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington. He
has written widely on the economics of the cable television,
motion picture, and other information industries. He is
co-author of Vertical
Integration in Cable Television (1997;
MIT Press) with Andrew A. Weiss, and author of Hollywood’s
Road to Riches (2005; Harvard University Press). His
articles on market structure and public policy toward
the media, the economics of motion picture production
and distribution, international trade in motion pictures
and video products, and other topics have appeared in Information
Economics and Policy, Journal of Communication, Journal
of Econometrics, Telecommunications Policy, Federal Communications
Law Journal,
and other academic journals and edited books. His research
has been supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Professor Waterman
has presented his research in testimony before the U.S.
Congress, and has served on expert panels or as a consultant
for the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal
Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the General
Accounting Office of the United States, and the Competition
Bureau, Industry Canada.
Waterman is currently a Coordinating Editor of the journal,
Information
Economics & Policy.
He completed his B.A. in Economics at the University of
Southern California and received a Ph.D. in Economics in
1979 from Stanford University. Before joining IU in 1993,
Professor Waterman was a faculty member of the Annenberg
School for Communication at USC. At USC, Professor Waterman
taught in the Annenberg School's Communications Management
Masters program and in the Department of Economics
David Waterman lives in Bloomington with his wife Sharon
and their three children, Chloe, Jason, and Matthew.
November, 2008
Research
Books
- Waterman, D. (2005), Hollywood’s
Road to Riches, Harvard University Press
- MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. and David Waterman (eds.)
(1998),
Telephony, The Internet, and The Media: Selected Papers
from the 25th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Waterman, David and Andrew A. Weiss (1997), Vertical
Integration in Cable Television, MIT Press and
AEI Press.
- Rosston, Gregory and David Waterman (eds.) (1997), Interconnection
and the Internet: Selected Papers from the 24th Annual
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Selected Articles, Chapters, and Working
Papers
- Jayakar, K., and D. Waterman
(2008), “Hollywood and the Italian Film Industry,” in
Janet Wasko and Paul MacDonald (eds.) The Contemporary
American Film Industry, (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
- Waterman, D., A. Weiss, and
S-C Lee (2007), “Time
Consistency and Seller Commitment in Inter-temporal
Movie Distribution: An Empirical Study of the Video
Window,” Working paper, Dept. of Telecommunications,
Indiana University, September. [pdf].
- Wang, X., and D. Waterman (2007), “The Economics
of Foreign Language Media in the U.S: An Empirical Study
of Radio Markets,” Working paper, Dept. of Telecommunications
(revised) [pdf]
- Waterman, D., S. W. Ji, and L.
R. Rochet (2007), “Enforcement
and Control of Piracy, Copying, and Sharing in the
Movie Industry,” Review of Industrial Organization
(Special Issue on the movie industry), Vol. 30,
No. 4. [pdf-accepted version]
- Waterman, D. (2007) “The
Effects of Technological Change on the Quality and
Variety of Information Products,” Economics
of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 16, No.
8 [pdf-accepted
version]
- Chen, D., and D. Waterman (2007), “Vertical
Ownership, Program
Network Carriage and Tier Positioning in Cable Television:
An Empirical Study,” Review
of Industrial Organization, Vol. 30, No. 3. [pdf-accepted
version]
- Lee, S-W, and D. Waterman (2007), “Theatrical
Feature Film Trade in the United States, Europe,
and Japan since the 1950s: An Empirical Study of the
Home Market Effect,” Journal of Media Economics.
Vol. 20, No. 3 [pdf-accepted version]
- Waterman, D. (2006), "How Does Technological
Advance Affect the Quality and Variety of Information
Pro.ducts?," Working paper, Dept. of Telecommunications,
Indiana University, January 29. [pdf]
- Lu, W., D. Waterman, and M.Z. Yan
(2005), “Changing
Markets, New Technology, and Violent Content: An
Economic Study of Motion Picture Genre Trends,” Paper
prepared for presentation at the 33rd TPRC Conference
on Information, Communications and Internet Policy,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 23-25, 2005. [pdf]
- Waterman, D (2005), “Economics of Media
Programming,” Ch.
18 in A. Albarran, S. Chan-Olmsted, and M. Wirth,
Handbook of Media Management & Economics, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates. [pdf- –preliminary
version]
- Waterman, D. (2005), "The Political Economy
of Audio-visual Copyright Enforcement," Working
paper, Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana University.
[pdf]
- Waterman,
D. (2003), "Economic Explanations of American
Media Trade Dominance: Contest or Contribution?," Journal
of Media Economics & Culture, Vol. 1, No.
1.
- Waterman,
D. and S-C Lee (2003), “Time Consistency
and the Distribution of Theatrical Films: An Empirical
Study of the Video Window,” Paper presented
at the Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Washington,
D.C., January, 2003 [pdf]
- Waterman, D. (2003), “Business
Models and Program Content,” Ch. 5 in E. Noam,
J. Groebel, and D. Gerbarg, (eds), Internet
Television (Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates).
- Waterman, D., and S-W Lee (2002), “Theatrical
Feature Film Trade and Media Policies in the United
States, Europe, and Japan since the 1950s,” Paper
presented at the International Communications Association
Annual Conference, Seoul, Korea, June
- Waterman, D. (2001), "The
Economics of Internet Television," Info:
The Journal of Policy Regulation, and Strategy
for telecommunications, Information, and the Media,
Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 215-229 [pdf]
- Waterman, D. and K. Jayakar, (2000), "The
Competitive Balance of the Italian and American
Film Industries,"
European Journal
of Communication, Vol.15,
No. 4. pp. 501-528.
- Waterman, D. (2000), "CBS-Viacom
and the Effects of Media Mergers: An Economic Perspective," Federal
Communications Law Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3,
p. 531-550.
- Jayakar, K. and D. Waterman (2000), "The
Economics of American Movie Exports: An Empirical Analysis," Journal
of Media Economics, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.153-169.
- Waterman, D. and K. Jayakar (1999), "Da
che parte pende la bilancia della competizione fra l'industria
cinematographica italiana e quella statunitense,?" L'Industria,
Vol. No.3, August-September.
- Waterman, D. and Z. Yan (1999), "Cable
Advertising and the Future of Basic Cable Networking," Journal
of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol.
43, No. 4, Fall, pp. 645-658.
- Waterman, D. (1998), "Digital
Television and Program Pricing," Prometheus, Vol. 16, No.
2, pp.165-195; also in D. Garberg (ed)(1999), The
Economics, Technology and Content of Digital TV,
Kluwer, 1998 (Chapter 11).
- M. Dupagne and D. Waterman (1998), "Determinants
of U.S. Television Fiction Imports in Western Europe,"
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media,,
Vol. 42, No 2 pp.208-220, Spring.
- Waterman, D. (1996), "Local
Monopsony and Free Riding,"
Information Economics & Policy, Vol.
8, No. 4, pp. 337-355. [pdf]
- Waterman, D. and A. Weiss (1996), "The
Effects of Vertical Integration between Cable Television
Systems and Pay Cable Networks," Journal of
Econometrics,
Vol. 72, pp. 357-395.
For other works, including those prior to 1996, see my
vita.
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