Quality signals in information cascades and the dynamics of the distribution of motion picture box office revenues

By Arthur De Vany, Cassey Lee. 2001

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Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies From the Bottom Up (2002, background): “De Vany and Lee [ 26 ] construct an ACE framework within which they explore the existence and fragility of information cascades under a variety of alternative structural specifications.”
Web-based experiments for the study of collective social dynamics in cultural markets (2009, unknown): “…and yields somewhat different predictions about collective behavior (Adler, 1985; Arthur, 1994; Banerjee, 1992; Bentley, Lipo, Herzog, & Hahn, 2007; Bikhchandani et al., 1992; Chung & Cox, 1994; De Vany & Lee, 2001; De Vany & Walls, 1996; Dodds & Watts, 2004; Granovetter, 1978; Watts, 2002).”
Forecasting Marketing-Mix Responsiveness for New Products (2010, background): “theatrical movies (e.g., Sawhney and Eliashberg 1996; De Vany and Lee 2001; Eliashberg et al.”
Estimating the Effects of Movie Piracy on Box-office Revenue (2007, result): “De Vany and Lee (2001) simulate a model of quality signals in information cascades that yields similar results.”
Cultural Industries: Product–Market Characteristics, Management Challenges and Industry Dynamics (2015, unknown): “…that sales result from information cascades through which consumers inform each other about products’ qualities (Beck 2007; De Vany and Lee 2001; De Vany and Walls 1996; Gaffeo et al. 2008; Gazley et al. 2011; Giles 2007; Godart and Mears 2009; Moul 2007; Salganik et al. 2006; Salganik and Watts…”