Pay-per-view Television: Consequences of a Ban

Claus Thustrup Hansen and Søren Kyhl
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Claus Thustrup Hansen: University of Copenhagen Institute of Economics
Søren Kyhl: University of Copenhagen Institute of Economics
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Claus Thustrup Kreiner

No 98-10, Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

Abstract: In the future, a ban of pay-per-view broadcasting will arise on certain events included on national lists in each EU country as put forward in the new "Television Without Frontiers" Directive from the 16th of April, 1997. This paper analyses theoretically the consequences of such ban when the alternative is financing the events purely by TV-commercials. Results on economic efficiency does not provide much reason for a ban. However, a ban increases consumer surplus which may support a ban for distributional reasons.

Keywords: pay-per-view television; commercials; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L50 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages + tables
Date: 1998-06
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Published in: Int. Journal of Industrial Org. 19(3-4) 2001, 589-609

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