W David Walls
Biographic Data
| ID | 712445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W David Walls |
| GIVEN NAMES | W David |
| FAMILY NAME | Walls |
| SIGNATURE | WALLS W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6667-4695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art Appreciation
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Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix
Online streaming services are challenging long-standing decision-making processes in the traditional motion picture industry, thus placing Hollywood major studios at a crossroads. We use the institutional logics perspective to examine how both traditional studios and online streaming services make strategic decisions on which films to produce and how these films are to be distributed. We then apply scenario analysis to explore how their interacti…
Decision Costs and Betting Market Efficiency
In this research we examine empirically the linkage between decision costs and market efficiency in the context of racetrack betting markets. We analyze more than 10,000 horse races and demonstrate that metrics of non-optimizing behavior are inversely related to the volume of betting: we are less likely to observe evidence of non-optimizing behavior when examining data from racetracks with larger betting pools. The analysis provides empirical sup…
Population and Employment Patterns in Hong Kong
We examine the spatial distribution of population and employment in Hong Kong by specifying and estimating monocentric and polycentric population and employment density functions. Our empirical results indicate that population concentrations in Hong Kong are best characterized as monocentric, with the single center located in West Kowloon. We also find that employment concentrations are consistent with the polycentric model with four centers loca…
Labor Force and Welfare Program Participation
This research examines the quantitative impacts of welfare program characteristics and individual characteristics on both the labor force and welfare participation decisions of low-income females with children. The participation decisions are estimated jointly as a bivariate probit model using data derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for the years 1979 to 1990, inclusive. These data allow the estimation of the precise …
Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Contracting in the Motion Picture Industry
Audiences discover what films they like and spread the word. Information feedback produces Bose-Einstein dynamics in the motion picture box office revenue distribution. Information cascades generate box office 'hits' and 'flops.' The revenue distribution evolves recursively over the 'run' as a mixture of the 'opening' and a stochastic competition among films. The motion picture run is decentralized, adaptive, and self-organizing: semistationary a…
Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Contracting in the Motion Picture Industry
Audiences discover what films they like and spread the word. Information feedback produces Bose-Einstein dynamics in the motion picture box office revenue distribution. Information cascades generate box office 'hits' and 'flops.' The revenue distribution evolves recursively over the 'run' as a mixture of the 'opening' and a stochastic competition among films. The motion picture run is decentralized, adaptive, and self-organizing: semistationary a…
Decision Costs and Betting Market Efficiency
In this research we examine empirically the linkage between decision costs and market efficiency in the context of racetrack betting markets. We analyze more than 10,000 horse races and demonstrate that metrics of non-optimizing behavior are inversely related to the volume of betting: we are less likely to observe evidence of non-optimizing behavior when examining data from racetracks with larger betting pools. The analysis provides empirical sup…
Labor Force and Welfare Program Participation
This research examines the quantitative impacts of welfare program characteristics and individual characteristics on both the labor force and welfare participation decisions of low-income females with children. The participation decisions are estimated jointly as a bivariate probit model using data derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for the years 1979 to 1990, inclusive. These data allow the estimation of the precise …
Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Contracting in the Motion Picture Industry
Audiences discover what films they like and spread the word. Information feedback produces Bose-Einstein dynamics in the motion picture box office revenue distribution. Information cascades generate box office 'hits' and 'flops.' The revenue distribution evolves recursively over the 'run' as a mixture of the 'opening' and a stochastic competition among films. The motion picture run is decentralized, adaptive, and self-organizing: semistationary a…
Population and Employment Patterns in Hong Kong
We examine the spatial distribution of population and employment in Hong Kong by specifying and estimating monocentric and polycentric population and employment density functions. Our empirical results indicate that population concentrations in Hong Kong are best characterized as monocentric, with the single center located in West Kowloon. We also find that employment concentrations are consistent with the polycentric model with four centers loca…
Labor Force and Welfare Program Participation
This research examines the quantitative impacts of welfare program characteristics and individual characteristics on both the labor force and welfare participation decisions of low-income females with children. The participation decisions are estimated jointly as a bivariate probit model using data derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for the years 1979 to 1990, inclusive. These data allow the estimation of the precise …
Decision Costs and Betting Market Efficiency
In this research we examine empirically the linkage between decision costs and market efficiency in the context of racetrack betting markets. We analyze more than 10,000 horse races and demonstrate that metrics of non-optimizing behavior are inversely related to the volume of betting: we are less likely to observe evidence of non-optimizing behavior when examining data from racetracks with larger betting pools. The analysis provides empirical sup…
Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix
Online streaming services are challenging long-standing decision-making processes in the traditional motion picture industry, thus placing Hollywood major studios at a crossroads. We use the institutional logics perspective to examine how both traditional studios and online streaming services make strategic decisions on which films to produce and how these films are to be distributed. We then apply scenario analysis to explore how their interacti…
Art Appreciation
To those who knew
Economics (4 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (2 works) · Demography (2 works)