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Chapter 15. Empirical Studies of Media Bias
Puglisi, Riccardo; Snyder, James M. - 2015
In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases …. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories … media outlets with other actors, measures based on the intensity of media coverage, and measures based on tone. In the …
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Expenditure in Sweden
Roseveare, Deborah - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002
This paper analyses the main features of Sweden’s public expenditure and addresses some key policy issues. Public spending is high relative to GDP, reflecting the wide support for the Swedish welfare state. The institutional framework within which spending decisions are made has both strengths...
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The Political Economy of Education and Development in an Open Economy
Bourguignon, François; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
If the price effect of opening up a developing economy may be expected to act as a disincentive for investment in human capital, the opposite is likely to be true of the income effect, especially in the presence of credit market imperfections among the poor. It is shown in this Paper that this...
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Public employment decline in developing countries in the 21st century : the role of globalization
Gözgör, Giray; Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin; Zimmermann, … - In: Economics letters 184 (2019), pp. 1-3
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Globalization and labor force participation
Beck, Stacie; Park, Soodong - In: Journal of economic integration 33 (2018) 3, pp. 433-465
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A welfare perspective on Nordic media subsidies
Kammer, Aske - In: Journal of media business studies 13 (2016) 3/4, pp. 140-152
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Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers
Snyder, James M. Snyder, Jr.; Larcinese, Valentino; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Shapiro, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet.s language is more similar to that of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575725
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Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) : audio-visual services
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Lejárraga, Iza; Miroudot, … - 2014
This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for motion pictures, television and broadcasting and sound recording. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign services...
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Ideological polarization and the media
Melki, Mickael; Pickering, Andrew - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 1, pp. 36-39
Greater media presence may facilitate information transmission and consensus or amplify existing political differences …. In the OECD greater media penetration is strongly correlated with reduced ideological polarization. Media penetration …
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