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Who Owns the Media?
Djankov, Simeon - 2001
We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. We find that almost universally the …
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Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2014
Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews by media outlets owned by News Corp.--such as the Wall Street Journal--and by Time...
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Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content
Lindo, Jason M. - 2020
We document the immediate and long-term effects of violent media. Specifically, we evaluate the effects of The Ultimate Fighter, a hit TV show that features fighters competing in violent mixed martial arts and which brought Ultimate Fighting Championship into the mainstream. We estimate the...
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Media Bias
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2002
There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin, reflects the outlet's attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine...
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Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices
Fraiberger, Samuel P. - 2018
world, which does not reverse in the short run. Media sentiment affects mainly foreign - rather than local - investors …
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Pop Internationalism : Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
Ferreira, Fernando - 2010
Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462688
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I …
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