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The Negative Effect of Concentration and Vertical Integration on Diversity and Quality in Video Entertainment

30 Sep 2007

This paper uses an analysis of a comprehensive 20-year data base on the video entertainment product space in a period of massive public policy change (roughly 1985 - 2005) to show that vertical integration and the elimination of source diversity (competition from independent producers) has had a negative impact on product quality and diversity
media, telecommunications, and information competition mass media source diversity vertical integration

Authors

S. Derek Turner, Mark Cooper

Date uploaded to Policy Archive
2008-06-24
Pages
61
Policy Archive ID
8001
Published in
United States of America

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