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In this Article, we explore a central problem facing creative industries: how to organize collaborative creative production? We identify informal rules as a significant and pervasive — but nonetheless overlooked — tool for solving that problem. While existing literature has focused on the...
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It is well-known that a seller imposed non-discrimination clause can soften downstream price competition by constraining opportunistic pricing behavior on the part of an upstream monopolist seller. But what about about market settings in which there exists a pivotal buyer? We show that in the...
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Rivals in the music industry learn and respond to one another through strategies related to technological advances, organizational design, and the evolution of methods for production, procurement, and distribution. At this time, the apparent winner in the evolution of the market has been the...
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(VF)Cet article cherche à comprendre les mécanismes par lesquels une nouvelle technologie est adoptée ou rejetée, par un secteur d'activité. Le terrain étudié est celui de l'industrie de la vidéo à domicile qui a connu d'importants bouleversements liés à l'introduction des...
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This article analyzes investment and other strategies in a stationary dynamic common agency model of movie distribution. Contract choices interact with other strategic choices. The model explains several facts; movie distributors avoid head-to-head new hit releases, hits have longer runs than...
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In platform-component systems with indirect network effects, some components are so popular with consumers that they have strong bargaining positions and can be regarded as “must-have” from the point of view of the platform. For example, ESPN is a must-have component of cable TV platforms....
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This paper provides new evidence on the contractual governance of technology licensing agreements. Based upon an … international sample of licensing contracts, we explore how the contractual design deals with specific contractual hazards. In … considerations on licensing design. Empirical results highlight that contractual clauses of governance are crafted independently of …
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. Our empirical study employs hazard rate models with time-varying covariates, using data from technology licensing … contract termination increase rather than decrease. Apparently, the value of the licensing contracts analyzed in this study …
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We review the Chicago school's single monopoly profit theory whereby an upstream monopolist cannot increase its profits through vertical integration as it has sufficient market power anyways. In our model the dominant supplier has full bargaining power and uses observable two-part tariffs. We...
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This paper empirically examines factors influencing box office success of international movies in Russia between 2012 and 2016. It adds to existing research on national movie markets, by highlighting the relevance of differences in culture, institutions, language, and consumption habits for...
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