Determinants of Box Office Success: The Impact of Quality Signals

Elliott, Caroline and Simmons, Rob (2008) Determinants of Box Office Success: The Impact of Quality Signals. Review of Industrial Organization, 33 (2). pp. 93-111. ISSN 0889-938X

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Abstract

This paper analyses the roles of various quality signals in the demand for cinema attendance in the United Kingdom. Estimation of a three-stage least squares model with data for 527 films released in the United Kingdom shows that the impacts of advertising and critical reviews on box office revenues vary both in channels and magnitudes of impact. Our model treats total advertising as endogenous, alongside the number of opening screens and total box office revenues, while critical reviews are considered exogenous. Our results show that total advertising affects total box office revenue while responding endogenously to critical reviews.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Schools:	Huddersfield Business School Huddersfield Business School > Emerging Markets Research Group Huddersfield Business School > Quantitative Analysis Research Group
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Depositing User:	Caroline Elliott
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2014 12:08
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2015 11:57
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/19479

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