Media industries are important drivers of popular culture. A large fraction of leisure time is devoted to radio, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and television (the illustrative example henceforth). Most advertising expenditures are incurred for these media. They are also mainly supported...

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly differentiated, demands are interdependent because the copying technology...

We analyze the competition between two newspapers in a vertical differentiation model where the qualities of the journals are determined endogenously in the first stage of the game. We show that when the advertising revenues per reader increase there is a critical value above which the quality...

The present note first provides an alternative formulation of the Cancian, Bills and Bergström (1995) - problem which discards the non-existence difficulty and consequently allows to consider some extensions of the TV-newscast scheduling game. The extension we consider consists in assuming that...

In 1997, the Christie's sale of 20f/l century art works from the estate Victor and Sally Ganz netted more than $207 million, a record sum for a single-owner sale of art at auction. The paper presents estimates of the Ganzes' financial returns from investing in art using records the Ganzes' kept...

L'analyse contenue dans cet article envisage une chaîne publique et une chaîne privée en monopole comme deux hypothèses alternatives concernant la structure du marché télévisuel. Nous comparons les tarifs et les valeurs publicitaires émergeants de ces hypothèses alternatives en...

This paper reviews the literature on ticket pricing in the entertaniment industry. All along, I try to evaluate whether ticket markets outeomes are consistent with theoretical predictions. Overall, the literature provides a good understanding for observed variations in ticket prices. The...

Nous étudions l’ouverture à la concurrence d’un bien réseau dans lequel l’opérateur historique, intégré verticalement, gère en monopole l’infrastructure et est concurrencé sur le secteur des services. La qualité du bien réseau est le minimum des qualités de chaque composante....

This article studies the problem of regulating a monopolist with unknown marginal cost. The problem described differs from Baron and Myerson [1982] because we suppose that the regulator faces a cash-in-advance constraint. The introduction of such a constraint may lead to the collapse of the...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of antitrust policy in fighting horizontal collusion under different regimes of policy implementation. We consider two regimes : a public agency regime, where an antitrust authority is in charge of competition policy, and a "delegation" regime, where the...