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We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...
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Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...
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dimensions,following the tradition of Hotelling and Cournot competition. The horizontal product attribute is programmequality or …
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product … extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
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The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence the way media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers (or the readers, if we consider newspapers), or by both. We show that...
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as … but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand competition. More specifically, Cournot competition can lead to earlier … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …
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We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high. Our empirical analysis of the Austrian retail gasoline market confirms that increases in...
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that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …
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