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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - CESifo - 2015
How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272620
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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548149
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Price Coordination in Two-Sided Markets: Competition in the TV Industry
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - CESifo - 2010
The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g. cable operators). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572578
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Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries
Crampes, Claude; Haritchabalet, Carole; Jullien, Bruno - CESifo - 2005
This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405759
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Elections and Market Provision of Information
Bruns, Christian - CESifo - 2013
information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …. The model also shows that the quality of media coverage is inefficiently low because voters have incentives to free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877742
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions—and particularly trust in banks, business and government—has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
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How Effective are Advertising Bans? On the Demand for Quality in Two-Sided Media Markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - CESifo - 2011
We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
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Digital Piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - CESifo - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727287
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It is a Theft but not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007
Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406063
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Mergers and Partial Ownership
Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg - CESifo - 2010
In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because they can result in a greater dampening of competition. We also derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583701