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    The effect of social interactions in the primary consumption life cycle of motion pictures
    (2006) Hidalgo, CA; Castro, A; Rodriguez-Sickert, C
    We develop a 'basic principles' model which accounts for the primary life cycle consumption of films as a social coordination problem in which information transmission is governed by word of mouth. We fit the analytical solution of such a model to aggregated consumption data from the film industry and derive a quantitative estimator of its quality based on the structure of the life cycle.