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Searching for the Concentration-Price Effect in the German Movie Theater Industry

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Böhme, Enrico
Müller, Christopher

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This paper investigates whether a price-concentration relationship can be found on local cinema markets in Germany. First, we test a model of monopolistic pricing using a new set of German micro data and find no significant difference in admission prices on monopoly and oligopoly markets. In a next step, we test whether this can be explained by the existence of local monopolies, but find no hint of that. Implicit or explicit collusion among cinema operators might explain our observations.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 15315.

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Keywords: price-concentration study; cinema pricing;

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L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
R32 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Production Analysis and Firm Location - - - Other Production and Pricing Analysis

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