extensive set of film, cinema, and time-dependent characteristics to build a rich demand system. Our results are consistent with … elasticities of demand. Australia presents a rare exception, with most cinemas offering cheap Tuesday ticket prices. We exploit … this feature to estimate a random coefficients discrete choice model of demand for the Sydney region in 2007. We harness an …

. The latter is solved with an algorithm based on column generation techniques. We have applied this combined demand …

the demand effects of opening-week box office rankings. We allowed two potential channels through which such rankings … affect consumer demand: quality signaling and information diffusion. The results show that a higher rank in the opening …