Using box office revenues in the economics classroom

David M. Lang

International Review of Economics Education, 2013, vol. 14, issue C, 71-85

Abstract: This manuscript presents a semester-long classroom exercise in which students can participate in a marketplace where they buy and sell futures contracts dependent on the box office revenue of forthcoming motion pictures. Students have an opportunity to learn about the inner workings of this particularly interesting industry while also learning to gather data, use expectations, and manage a budget in a market setting.

Keywords: Teaching; Movies; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iree.2013.10.005

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