overestimate their 5-year risks of a heart attack and a stroke. Obese individuals are thus aware of some but not all obesity …

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 …

around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes …

We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We … substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising relative to social optimum. We also find that the more viewers dislike … ads, the more likely it is that welfare is increasing in the number of advertising financed TV channels. A publicly owned …

becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …

setup differentiated platforms compete in advertising and offer consumers a service free of charge (such as a TV program …) that is financed through advertising. We show that advertising can exhibit the properties of a strategic substitute or …