Explaining Box Office Performance from the Bottom Up: Data, Theories and Models

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dc.contributor.advisorAxtell, Robert
dc.contributor.authorRusso, Holly Ann
dc.creatorRusso, Holly Ann
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-28T10:22:15Z
dc.date.available2016-09-28T10:22:15Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractEvery week, there are more than 50 movies playing in theaters from which movie-goers can choose. Analyses of the relative box office success of these films shows that it is Pareto-distributed, with roughly 20% of them earning 80% of the overall revenue. Arthur De Vany studied the potential causes of this ‘winner-take-all’ distribution through equation-based analyses, and theorized that the Pareto-distributed box office revenues we observe emerge from the micro-level complex adaptive behavior of movie-goers with imperfect information.
dc.format.extent110 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/10440
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2016 Holly Ann Russo
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectMarketing
dc.subjectAgent-based
dc.subjectBox office
dc.subjectMovies
dc.subjectPower law
dc.subjectScale-free network
dc.subjectWord of mouth
dc.titleExplaining Box Office Performance from the Bottom Up: Data, Theories and Models
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineComputational Social Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelPh.D.

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