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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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We show that demand uncertainty leads to vertical product differentiation even when consumers are homogeneous. When a firm anticipates that its inventory or capacity may not be fully utilized, product variety can reduce its expected costs of excess capacity. When the firm offers a continuum of...
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A hedonic model featuring quality-quantity tradeoffs reveals a number of surprising market behaviors that can result from price regulations that are imposed on competitive markets for products that have adjustable non-price attributes. Quality need not clear a competitive market in the same way...
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under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly …
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Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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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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daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant …
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novel data on newspaper circulation, costs, and revenues. The estimated model implies that competition enhances ideological … competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand, entry, and political affiliation choice in which newspapers compete for … diversity, that the market undersupplies diversity, and that optimal competition policy requires accounting for the two …
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Women have traditionally participated in intellectual property creation at depressed rates relative to men. Book authorship is now an exception. In 1970, women published a third as many books as men. By 2020, women produced the majority of books. Adding new products can have significant welfare...
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