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Political backlash and consumer boycotts: Evidence from the NFB relocation and movie demand in Canada by Gil, Ricard, Xing, Jingyi

“…In this paper, we investigate the impact of the announcement in 1952 of a change in Canadian cultural policy, namely the reorganization of the National Film…”
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Why Did Firms Practice Segregation? Evidence from Movie Theaters during Jim Crow by Gil, Ricard, Marion, Justin

“…Racial segregation by businesses during Jim Crow was often voluntary and practiced without a legal mandate. Voluntary segregation can be driven by…”
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On the determinants and consequences of informal contracting by Gil, Ricard, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…As documented by Macauley and others, informal contracts are pervasive in modern economies. Yet, systematic empirical evidence on them is still limited. In…”
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Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure in Media Markets: Evidence from the Chinese Motion Picture Industry by Gil, Ricard, Ho, Chun-Yu, Xu, Li, Zhou, Yaying

“…This paper investigates the impact of vertical integration and market foreclosure in media markets. Using theater-movie-day-level data from China, we show that…”
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Vertical Integration, Exclusivity, and Game Sales Performance in the US Video Game Industry by Gil, Ricard, Warzynski, Frederic

“…This article empirically investigates the relation between vertical integration and game performance in the US video game industry. For this purpose, we use a…”
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Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies? by Mulligan, Casey B., Gil, Ricard, Xavier Sala-i-Martin

“…Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960–90. Based on three tenets of voting…”
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Can free-shipping hurt online retailers? by Gil, Ricard, Korkmaz, Evsen, Sahin, Ozge

“…In this paper, we investigate optimal pricing strategies for an online grocery retailer that derives its profits from delivery fees and grocery sales. We base…”
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New Frontiers in Empirical Research on Informal Contracting by Gil, Ricard, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…In standard models of informal contracting, parties use discretionary payments to split the known value of their relationship, which results in stable…”
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Technological change and managerial challenges in the movie theater industry by Weinberg, Charles B., Otten, Cord, Orbach, Barak, McKenzie, Jordi, Gil, Ricard, Chisholm, Darlene C., Basuroy, Suman

“…The recent rise of digital technology in the delivery of entertainment casts doubt among industry stakeholders on whether movie theaters will continue to be…”
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“Make-or-buy” in movies: Integration and ex-post renegotiation by Gil, Ricard

“…In this paper, I investigate the determinants of the boundaries of the firm in the movie industry using a new data set from the Spanish movie industry. These…”
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Revenue Sharing Distortions and Vertical Integration in the Movie Industry by Gil, Ricard

“…I analyze how variation in firm boundaries affect economic outcomes in the movie industry. Specifically, I focus on movie distributors and their contracts with…”
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Informal contracting between and within firms by Gil, Ricard, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…While informal contracts are widely used in modern economies, limited systematic empirical evidence is available to researchers and policy makers. This paper…”
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What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany by Calzada, Joan, Gil, Ricard

“…This paper shows the existence of a net market expansion effect of news aggregators through which news outlets increase their number of visits. The impact of…”
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Does competition increase quality? Evidence from the US airline industry by Gil, Ricard, Kim, Myongjin

“…•We study the effect of competition on quality in the US airline industry.•We use a novel source of exogenous variation in competition, merger-induced…”
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Demand Shifts and Changes in Competition: Evidence from the Movie Theatre Industry by Gil, Ricard

“…In this paper, I empirically examine how demand shifts affect firm behaviour. In particular, I study how competitive behaviour between firms changes across…”
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Formal and Informal Contracting: Theory and Evidence by Gil, Ricard, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…In this article, we review the emerging economic literature on formal and informal contracting. Two patterns emerge from this literature. First, the use of…”
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Does Supply Concentration Encourage Cooperation? Evidence from Airlines by Argyres, Nicholas, Gil, Ricard, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…One of a firm’s key strategic decisions is whether to concentrate its input purchases in a small number of suppliers versus spreading them among many…”
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Relationships Under Stress: Relational Outsourcing in the U.S. Airline Industry After the 2008 Financial Crisis by Gil, Ricard, Kim, Myongjin, Zanarone, Giorgio

“…This paper studies how firms restructure their relational contracts in the face of permanent shocks to the value of their relationships. In the context of the…”
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Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948 by Gil, Ricard

“…I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique dataset collected from Variety magazine issues between…”
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Residential segregation, discrimination, and African-American theater entry during Jim Crow by Gil, Ricard, Marion, Justin

“…We examine the effect of residential segregation on the entry of movie theaters serving African-American customers in the 1950s, which provided an alternative…”
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