This paper analyzes the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address … endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find negative effects of Internet …

fallen in traditional media as the Internet has made advertising markets more competitive. I assess these claims … theoretically and empirically, and compare the patterns we observe for the Internet to trends in advertising around the introduction …