In this study, we consider the role of a publicly owned platform and programme quality in the free-to-air broadcasting … connection between programme quality and advertising incentives is drastically different in each scenario. We also consider the …

that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures …Since 2009, German nursing homes have been evaluated regularly with quality report cards published online. We argue … does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes with information on two waves, we find a significant improvement in …

political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a … relatively high publicity reaction. A potential explanation for this latter finding is that these groups have low quality initial …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that … negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of …

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a … simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from … social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

People typically do not acquire new information about the facts of the economy through consulting official statistics … with an experiment whether the explanatory style used in such media-type stories affects individual decision making. We … a media-type story about the economy before they play a minimum effort game. The media story has either good or bad …

This paper investigates how attitudes toward the United States are affected by the provision of information. We use an … providing information had a meaningful effect on U.S. favorability. Observed revisions are a consequence of both the salience of … already known information and information acquisition that leads to a convergence in attitudes across respondents with …

information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …. The model also shows that the quality of media coverage is inefficiently low because voters have incentives to free …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …

apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass media. In … common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not be willing to pay for information out of purely instrumental motives … instrumental information in these scenarios. Our model thus reconciles the rational voter approach with the common perception of …