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Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a … social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media … networks they create, as well as individual characteristics and media consumption choices …

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Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains

Bui, Ha; Huo, Zhen; Levchenko, Andrei A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value chains. Producers in a sector do not perfectly observe contemporaneous shocks to other countries and sectors, and their output decisions respond to their idiosyncratic beliefs...

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Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content

Lindo, Jason M. - 2020

We document the immediate and long-term effects of violent media. Specifically, we evaluate the effects of The Ultimate …

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Learning from Shared News : When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization

Bowen, T. Renee; Dmitriev, Danil; Galperti, Simone - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

opposite extreme beliefs resulting in severe polarization. Our results hold without media bias or fake news, so eliminating …

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Biases in Information Selection and Processing : Survey Evidence from the Pandemic

Faia, Ester; Fuster, Andreas; Pezone, Vincenzo; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How people form beliefs is crucial for understanding decision-making under uncertainty. This is particularly true in a situation such as a pandemic, where beliefs will affect behaviors that impact public health as well as the aggregate economy. We conduct two survey experiments to shed light on...

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Pop Internationalism : Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions

Bajari, Patrick - 2008

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has used auctions to award spectrum since 1994. During this time period, the FCC has experimented with a variety of auctions rules including click box bidding and anonymous bidding. These rule changes make the actions of bidders less visible during the...

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Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

Arzaghi, Mohammad - 2008

pecuniary economies of scale available in providing media services. The results from an econometric analysis of cross …. We also find a strong trend toward unbundling over time, a result that is partially explained by increases in media …

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The Corporate Governance Role of the Media : Evidence from Russia

Dyck, Alexander - 2006

We study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance by focusing on Russia in the period 1999-2002. This …

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