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Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2002

There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire …'s attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases …

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Media Competition and News Diets

Angelucci, Charles - 2020

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention … entry of television affected local newspapers as well as consumer media diets in the United States. We develop a model of … print media and show that entry of national television news could adversely affect the provision of local news. We construct …

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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports

Kane, Edward J. - 2003

Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...

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Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs

Dafny, Leemore - 2005

The use of government-mandated report cards to diminish uncertainty about the quality of products and services is widespread. However, report cards will have little effect if they simply confirm consumers' prior beliefs. Moreover, documented "responses" to report cards may reflect learning about...

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Content Aggregation by Platforms : The Case of the News Media

Chiou, Lesley - 2015

The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. Policymakers are concerned that these new platforms threaten incentives for the production of original content. As a result, policymakers are contemplating regulations that would force...

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The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media

Athey, Susan - 2013

introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two …

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...

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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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