finance of public television. It goes beyond the conventional analysis in this topic, byshowing the spill-over effects that a …. These tensions arebeing felt in the television sectors of virtually every country of the world. To illustrate these and … advertising. The second novelty of this model is its pricing scheme, which capturesthe unusual nature of television advertising …

television stations. Instrumenting for the possible endogeneity of media activity to public spending, 2SLS results confirm a … media effects with spatial autocorrelation. -- Public spending ; information ; television ; elections …

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

In OECD countries watching television is by far the most time-consuming form of leisure. Surprisingly, television …

accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed-Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …