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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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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It is a Theft but not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007
on Internet downloads and black market purchases of low-quality copies like the most common form. Somewhat paradoxically …
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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...
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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...
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Magazine Subscription and Intertemporal Discounting: Some Further Evidence
Resende, Marcelo; Ferioli, Eduardo - CESifo - 2014
The paper’s objective is to assess price discrimination in magazine subscriptions in the Brazilian market. Oster and Scott-Morton (2005) had advanced a price discrimination mechanism in which the ratio between subscription and newsstand prices would be positively associated to the extent that...
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News Sources and Media Bias
Garcia-Pires, Armando J.; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars - CESifo - 2012
In this paper we investigate the relationship between news sources and media firms. Although empirically important …, this channel for supply-driven media bias has not previously been analyzed in economics literature. We model the … provide to a media firm. Strategic interactions between these agents may have a significant impact on the level of media bias …
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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2013
In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...
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