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The political legacy of entertainment TV
Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - 2015
We investigate the political impact of entertainment television in Italy over the past thirty years by exploiting the …
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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news
Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018
We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political value. In particular, we analyze how the electoral cycles at the regional level influence the coverage of news about corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by...
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Information gatekeeping and media bias
Eraslan, Hülya; Özertürk, Saltuk - 2018
We develop a model to study the political economy implications of information gatekeeping, i.e., a policy of granting access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting access improves her re-election probability only if...
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Censorship in democracy
Caesmann, Marcel; Goldzycher, Janis; Grigoletto, Matteo; … - 2024
The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is a growing concern in many democracies. Can censorship be an effective tool to curb the spread of such slanted narratives? In this paper, we study the European Union's ban on...
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The economics of television and online video markets
Crawford, Gregory S. - 2015
Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that … determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both … number of distinct themes emerge, including the growing importance of the pay-television sector, the role played by content …
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Local television, citizen knowledge and political accountability: Evidence from the U.S. Senate
Mattias, Nordin - 2015
I investigate the causal effect of access to relevant local television on i) U.S. citizens' knowledge of their senators … mismatch between the local television markets and the states. This mismatch causes citizens living in counties where local … television stations are based in their own state (in-state counties) to have greater access to relevant news about their senators …
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Immigration and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Mehic, Adrian - 2019
Between the 2014 and 2018 Swedish parliamentary elections, the vote share of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats increased significantly. To evaluate the possibility of a causal link between immigration and the right-wing populist vote, this paper uses data from a nationwide policy experiment,...
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Immigration and election outcomes: Evidence from city districts in Hamburg
Otto, Alkis Henri; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on city districts in Hamburg, Germany, during a period of substantial inflows of immigrants and asylum seekers. We find significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner...
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Redistributional preferences and imposed institutions
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006
To what extent do imposed institutions shape preferences? We consider this issue by comparing the market-versus-state attitudes of respondents from a capitalist country, Finland, and an ex-communist group of Baltic countries, and by arguing that the period of communist rule can be viewed as an...
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Lending for Growth? An Analysis of State-Owned Banks in China
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Burzynska, Katarzyna; Opper, Sonja - 2013
This paper provides the first comparative analysis of different types of publicly owned banks operating in China between 1997 and 2008. Using principal component analysis and Granger-causality tests, this study shows that China's state-owned commercial banks and rural credit cooperatives did not...
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