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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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Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...
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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 …
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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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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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market shares. We show that advertisement levels depend neither on the media price nor on the location of the media firm. An … increase in advertising revenues does not change location but only the media price. If the distribution of consumers is … asymmetric, market shares will be asymmetric as well, and the media firm with the larger market share charges the higher media …
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A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to a different conclusion. We construct the first complete database of investor losses (“haircuts”) in all restructurings with foreign...
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equilibria share some features with the ones of multi-sided reputation models. …
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We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008), career concerns are introduced in a sequential asset market, where wages for investors are set by subjects in the role of employers. Employers can observe investment...
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preferences in combination with reputation opportunities keep principals from abusing their power, leading to the widespread …
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