Using a home market model of international trade in media products, this paper reports an empirical study that relates trends in theater box-office market shares to consumer spending on movies in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the U.K since the 1950s. We find a significantly...

European cinema was and still is often assimilated by film consumers as art cinema which is more difficult to understand and ultimately to reach a big number of consumers. The objectives of this paper were to examine the pathway of European cinema market and the relationship with its consumers...

This paper presents estimates of lost movie sales due to unpaid movie consumption. We are the first to provide estimates that are recent, representative of the internet-using population, and cover multiple countries. Based on an online questionnaire with almost 30,000 respondents, we document...