Entertainment Industry Economics

Auteur

Harold L. Vogel was the senior entertainment and media analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. for seventeen years and has taught at the Columbia Business School in New York and the Cass Business School in London. His books include Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (3rd edition, 2016) and Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes: Features, Causes, and Effects (2nd edition, 2018).

Résumé
A valuable resource for financial analysts, economists, industry executives, legislators, and journalists. Accessible to students, it can also form the basis for graduate or undergraduate courses ranging from applied media economics to management in television, communications, sports, and performing arts.

Contenu

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Economic perspectives; 2. Basic elements; Part II. Media-Dependent Entertainment: 3. Movie macroeconomics; 4. Making and marketing movies; 5. Financial accounting in movies and television; 6. Music; 7. Broadcasting; 8. Cable; 9. Publishing; 10. Toys and games; Part III. Live Entertainment: 11. Gaming and wagering; 12. Sports; 13. Performing arts and culture; 14. Amusement/theme parks; Part IV. Roundup: 15. Performance and policy; Appendix A. Sources of information; Appendix B. Major games of chance; Appendix C. Supplementary data; Glossary; References; Index.