Video Media Competition: Regulation, Economics, and TechnologyEli M. Noam |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Economics of PayTV Media | 19 |
Statistical Evidence of Substitutability Among | 56 |
The Future Role of Local | 121 |
The Impact of Competing Technologies on Cable | 138 |
Empirical Studies of Media Competition | 168 |
Multichannel Video Competition | 174 |
Analyzing the Critical Unknown Factor | 180 |
Welfare Analysis and the Video Marketplace | 274 |
Licensing Spectrum | 283 |
The Regulatory Setting | 330 |
The Merger of Showtime | 338 |
Antitrust Concentration and Competition | 390 |
Antitrust Concentration and Competition | 397 |
A European View of Competition and Control in | 405 |
New Media in the Third World | 416 |
Rivals or Partners | 187 |
Television and Cable Issues | 214 |
Theatrical Feature Films | 221 |
Program Competition Diversity and Multichannel | 244 |
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Contributors | 459 |
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