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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I: Box-office champions, chaotic dynamics and herding
1 The market for motion pictures
Rank, revenue and survival
2 Bose–Einstein dynamics and adaptive contracting in the motion picture industry
3 Quality evaluations and the breakdown of statistical herding in the dynamics of box-office revenue
Part II: “Wild” uncertainty, tough decisions and false beliefs
4 Uncertainty in the movie industry
Can star power reduce the terror of the box office?
5 Does Hollywood make too many R-rated movies?
Risk, stochastic dominance and the illusion of expectation
6 Big budgets, big openings and legs
Analysis of the blockbuster strategy
Part III: Judges, lawyers and the movies
7 Motion picture antitrust
The Paramount cases revisited
8 Was the antitrust action that broke up the movie studios good for the movies?
Evidence from the stock market
9 Stochastic market structure
Concentration measures and motion picture antitrust
Part IV: A business of extremes
10 Motion picture profit, the stable Paretian hypothesis and the curse of the superstar
11 Contracting with stars when “nobody knows anything”
12 How extreme uncertainty shapes the movie business
Epilogue
Can you manage a business when “nobody knows anything”?
Notes
Bibliography
Essential Reading
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