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 …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

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 …

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 …

. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …