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The conventional wisdom is that increasing globalisation requires a reduction in the provision of the welfare state among industrialised countries as the distortions resulting from this type of expenditure undermine international competitiveness and the ability of countries to attract and/or...
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This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … size and factor abundance. It then draws on existing empirical evidence to outline the effects of globalization on capital …
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The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is …
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The persuasion rate is a key parameter for measuring the causal effect of a directional message on influencing the recipient's behavior. Its identification has relied on exogenous treatment or the availability of credible instruments, but the requirements are not always satisfied in...
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attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …
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We empirically investigate the relevance of multi-homing in two-sided markets. First, we build a micro-founded structural econometric model that encompasses demand for differentiated products and allows for multi-homing on both sides of the market. We then use an original dataset on the Italian...
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This article sheds light on the impact of the media on economists' expectations for future economic developments. We … conducted a worldwide economic expert survey and find that the media provides most economists with valuable information that … countries with authoritarian regimes. Moreover, the experts estimate the influence of the media remarkably higher on others than …
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years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …
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This paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature. By using the potential outcome framework, we define the causal persuasion rate by a proper conditional probability of taking the action of interest with a persuasive message...
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predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … migration. Exploiting news reports, we find that successful attacks receive more media coverage from local and regional …
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