. Whereas competition can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, it actually exaggerates the incentive to spin stories …There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire … to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin, reflects the outlet …

Does media bias affect voting? We address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its … bias and about politician quality. The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a …

quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in … which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias … emerges in our model even though it can make all market participants worse off. The model predicts that bias will be less …

under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly …

preference minorities, and we provide some conditions for such bias to occur. We then estimate the degree of bias in a particular …

frictions and the increase in specialization have exactly offsetting effects on the extent of competition in the market. Under …

corresponding new measures of industry competition where firms can have their own distinct set of competitors. Our new sets of … industry competitors better explain specific discussion of high competition by management, rivals identified by managers as …