The economics of movies (revisited): A survey of recent literature

Jordi McKenzie

doi:10.1111/joes.12498

The economics of movies (revisited): A survey of recent literature

Jordi McKenzie

Department of Economics

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Abstract

Twenty years ago, there were all but a handful of scholarly studies published about the economics of the motion picture industry. Over the first decade of the new millennium, this changed dramatically and many studies began to appear in economics journals and those of cognate disciplines. The following, and most recent, decade has seen this trend continue and the literature on the “economics of movies” has well and truly matured. While economics and marketing disciplines still generate the most output, newer data-orientated disciplines have increasingly turned their attention towards the industry and its abundance of rich and relatively accessible data. This survey endeavors to concisely but comprehensively review recent literature related to this eternally fascinating industry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	480-525
Number of pages	46
Journal	Journal of Economic Surveys
Volume	37
Issue number	2
Early online date	9 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12498
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023

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© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Economic Surveys published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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film economics
motion picture economics
movie economics

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