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Being the New York Times: the political behaviour of a newspaper
Puglisi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health...
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Information acquisition, ideology and turnout: theory and evidence from Britain
Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other … candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex … ante very ideological also attach little value to information because they think that the news will hardly change their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745271
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election
Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information … proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746429
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Student satisfaction, league tables and University applications
Gibbons, Stephen; Neumayer, Eric; Perkins, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We investigate the impact of information about student satisfaction on university choice, using data from the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126173
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Organizing to adapt and compete
Alonso, Ricardo; Dessein, Wouter; Matouschek, Niko - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
decisions to changes in the environment. We show that even if lower-level managers have superior information about local … conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a centralized organization can be better at adapting to local information …
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The bright side of social capital: how 'bridging' makes Italian provinces more innovative
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a consensus on its impact on local innovative performance: some empirical analyses emphasize a positive effect, others speak about a ‘dark side’ of social capital. This paper...
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NON-COOPERATIVE WAGE BARGAINING
HOLDEN, S. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989
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Aggregate and regional disaggregate fluctuations
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996
This paper models uctuations in regional disaggregates as a nonsta- tionary, dynamically evolving distribution. Doing so enables study of the dynamics of aggregate uctuations jointly with those of the rich cross-section of regional disaggregates. For the US, the leading state| regardless of...
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The Beveridge curve
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the state of the labour market. The modern underlying theory is the search and matching model, with...
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