How Much Will Consumers Pay? A Hedonic Analysis of the Cable Television Industry |
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Authors: | Bruce Anstine Diane |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, North Central College, 30 North Brainard Street, Naperville, IL, 60566-7063, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Because cable television is the classic example of a bundled commodity, it is difficult to determine how consumers value individual cable networks offered on a typical system. This paper uses a modified hedonic framework to determine the marginal willingness to pay by consumers for individual cable networks. The traditional hedonic framework is adapted to allow for the lack of competition on the supply side of the market. It is clear that consumers do value some types of programming more than other types. Sports, news, and family programming all have positive implicit prices while program guides have negative marginal prices. |
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Keywords: | Bundling cable television hedonic |
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