-economic characteristics, this analysis takes individual media consumption into account, as a determinant of opinion about immigration. Our … preferences. Moreover, media exposure appears as a key determinant of beliefs: individuals who spend more time to get informed on …

How far can the media protect or undermine democratic institutions in unconsolidated democracies, and how persuasive …

understudied is the effect of mass media, as the main source of political information, on voter turnout in new democracies. This … theoretical framework suggests that media access and freedom affect turnout. We test our predictions in a sample of 60 developing … countries over the period 1980-2005. We find that media penetration, as measured by radio ownership, fosters turnout, whereas …

I develop a simple dynamic model of reputation-based transactions between a buyer in one country and a supplier in … stricter standard affects the supply of quality goods and indirectly through reputation. I refer to the former effect as the … regulation effect, and to the latter as the reputation effect. I show that, whereas most of the empirical literature has so far …

. These equilibria share some features with the ones of multi-sided reputation models. …

tools to achieve this goal. A rereading of Kreps' model of reputation sheds light on its structural dimension and …

enjoy high reputation, or who are similar to them. Our simulations test which criterion –or which combination of criteria …

providing accurate research when both ethical and reputational concerns matter. First, we show that reputation picks up ability … and thus serves as a sorting device: when analysts have a relatively low reputation for providing research quality (below … reputation, full financial (performance based) incentives contracts offer a substantial reward for their contribution to the firm …