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We analyze minute-by-minute, individual level data on viewership for Italian TV news broadcasts, matched with detailed data on content. We study viewer behavior, especially the decision of viewers to switch away from a news program as a function of the type of story being broadcast. Somewhat...
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resulted in a decline in newspaper readership which was not compensated by increased news consumption on other media. Finally …
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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 the scope for raising revenues from consumer payment is …
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This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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multiple networks to price differentiate consumers on both sides of the market. Competing network providers might operate … networks such that one of them targets high reservation value consumers on one side of the market, while the other targets high … equilibria product differentiation is endogenized by the network choices of consumers. Heterogeneity of consumers is necessary …
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permits are initially allocated to households who are then allowed to sell them in the permit market or to withhold (at least … traditional permit systems which neglect consumer preferences by solely distributing emission permits to producers/polluters. In … change in environmental policy would mark a return to the traditional principles of consumer sovereignty by involving …
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