Chen, Luming,  Yi, Lisa Xuejie and  Yu,Chuan  <br/><br/>
The welfare effects of vertical integration in china's movie industry 

 - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics  
 - 16(2). May, 2024: p.204-235 
<br/><br/> This paper investigates the welfare effects of vertical integration in China's movie industry. We leverage data covering all theaters and 423 popular movies in China during 2014–2018. We find no evidence of integrated movies being foreclosed to rival theaters. Integrated theaters show movies for longer, allocate more screenings, and charge lower prices. We estimate a model of consumers' demand and theaters' screening decisions. Integrated theaters internalize a substantial fraction of their upstream companies' profits. Vertical integration mitigates distortions from revenue-sharing contracts and steers demand favoring integrated movies. Overall, vertical integration increases consumer surplus with considerable heterogeneity across markets.- Reproduced <br/><br/>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20210320<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vertical integration, Movie industry, Theater performance, Screening allocation, Consumer demand, Revenue-sharing contracts, Foreclosure effects, Price strategy, Integrated theaters, Upstream profits, Demand steering, Welfare analysis, Consumer surplus, Market heterogeneity, Industry structure, Chinese cinema, Economic modeling, Contract distortion, Media economics, Integration effect