Supplementary and related research

Note: These are working papers as of August 2005 and subject to revision.

Chapter 4

• 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]

Detailed econometric analysis of movie windows; revisions in progress with Andrew A. Weiss.

• Waterman, D. (2005), "The Political Economy of Audio-visual Copyright Enforcement," Working paper, Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana University. [pdf]

Supplementary paper about the reasons for and consequences of differing levels of copyright enforcement affecting movies.

Chapter 5

• Waterman, D. and S-W Lee (2005), “Theatrical Feature Film Trade in the United States, Europe, and Japan since the 1950s: An Empirical Study of the Home Market Effect,” Working paper, Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana University [pdf]

Additional econometric analysis of home market effects in motion picture trade.

Chapter 6

• 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]

Updated and extended analysis (to 2004) of trends in movie genres and their economic causes.

• Waterman, D. (2004), "The Effects of Technological Change on the Quality and Variety of Information Products," NBER All Universities Conference on Economics of the Information Economy, Cambridge, MA, May 7-8. [pdf]

Theoretical modeling of the effects of technological change on movie variety and production investments; also contains detailed production cost data for animated films.