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Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content
Anderson, Simon P; Gans, Joshua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Content providers rely on advertisers to pay for content. TiVo, remote controls, and pop-up ad blockers are examples of ad-avoidance technologies that allow consumers to view content without ads, and thereby siphon off the content without paying the ‘price.’ We examine the content...
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Tying-in Two-Sided Markets and the Honour All Cards Rule
Rochet, Jean-Charles; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Payment card associations offer both debit and credit cards and, until recently, engaged in a tie-in on the merchant side through the so-called honour-all-cards (HAC) rule. The HAC rule came under attack on the grounds that the credit and debit card markets are separate markets and that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497791
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Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-Controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Though new media has become a popular source of information, it is less clear whether or not they have a real impact on economic activity. In authoritarian regimes, where the traditional media are not free, this impact might be especially pronounced. We study consequences of blog postings of a...
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Media and Politics
Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely implications of existing behavioral theories of media effects, developed outside of economics.
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The Price of Media Capture and the Looting of Newspapers in Interwar France
Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...
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Political Activism, Trust, and Coordination
Battaglini, Marco; Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
maker does not react unless all of them are actively lobbying. In a ‘mutual discipline’ or high-trust equilibrium, by …
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Lobbying, Information Transmission and Unequal Representation
Frisell, Lars; Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policy-maker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truth telling, we show that the...
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Advertising and the Distribution of Content
Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
distribution of content to pay TV and free-to-air broadcasters, and for internet distribution of content. …
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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
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