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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust

Velásquez, Daniel; Medina, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2018

gazette, is the most read Spanish-language newspaper in the world. We find that a spike of negative crime news increases …

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Competition in Print Advertising between Paid and Free Newspapers

Cheung, Lydia; Brooke, Geoffrey - 2018

This paper looks at the market for print advertising in New Zealand, which is characterized by rich variation in ownership structures of overlapping paid daily metropolitan newspapers and free weekly suburban newspapers. We first present stylized empirical facts on advertising rates and...

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An Empirical Analysis of Competition in Print Adversiting among Paid and Free Newspapers

Brooke, Geoffrey; Cheung, Lydia - 2018

This paper examines the competition in the print newspaper advertising market in New Zealand, which involves paid daily … and free weekly titles. This is the first study to explore how different ownership structures across two newspaper …-Fairfax merger, and Fairfax's subsequent closure of 15 newspaper titles. We find strong evidence for competition between overlapping …

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New(spaper) Evidence of a Reduction in Suicide Mentions during the 19th‐century US Gold Rush

Kronenberg, Christoph - 2020

scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages as a proxy for suicides. Results show that … overall gold discoveries are linked with a clear reduction in newspaper suicide mentions. The results indicate that an …

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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

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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New(spaper) evidence of a reduction in suicide mentions during the 19th century US gold rush

Kronenberg, Christoph - In: Health Economics 30 (2021) 10, pp. 2582-2594

‐scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages to proxy for suicides. Overall, results show that … mined gold is linked with an apparent reduction in newspaper suicide mentions in line with previous research. …

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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014

This paper explores the role of mass media in people’s perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Using survey data collected immediately after Koizumi’s 2005 landslide electoral victory, this study empirically...

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Internet and politics: Evidence from U.K. local elections and local government policies

Gavazza, Alessandro; Nardotto, Mattia; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2017

We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis suggests that the internet has displaced other media with greater news content (i.e., radio and newspapers), thereby decreasing...

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Components of Uncertainty

Larsen, Vegard Høghaug - 2017

Uncertainty is acknowledged to be a source of economic fluctuations. But, does the type of uncertainty matter for the economy's response to an uncertainty shock? This paper offers a novel identification strategy to disentangle different types of uncertainty. It uses machine learning techniques...

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Honesty on the Streets - A Natural Field Experiment on Newspaper Purchasing

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009

A publisher uses an honor system for selling a newspaper in the street. The customers are supposed to pay, but they can …

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