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We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
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daily newspapers in the US. We find that, in their capacity as newspaper consumers, members of each group benefits …
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This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was … the adoption was determined, at least in part, at the firm rather than the newspaper level, although, on the whole …, newspaper chains adopted neither earlier nor later than non-chain newspapers. Ceteris paribus, adoption occurred more quickly in …
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. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if … identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant. We also present evidence on the role of pressure … from incumbent politicians, tastes of reporters, and newspaper competition in determining slant …
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regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …
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The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health insurance market. While the individual market represents a small slice of the U.S. population, it has historically been the market segment with the lowest rates of take-up and greatest...
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service regulation. Using variation created by the rule's introduction as a natural experiment, we find claims costs rose …
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This paper measures changes in electricity generation costs caused by the introduction of market mechanisms to determine output decisions in service areas that were previously using command-and-control-type operations. I use the staggered transition to markets from 1999- 2012 to evaluate the...
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In the United States today, the system of financial regulation is complex and fragmented. Responsibility to regulate …
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The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...
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