There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire …'s attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases …

The media report news that in turn influences behaviors. This news is drawn from a set of available information. In … this paper, we study how the set of information is "exante" affected by anticipated media coverages. First, we take an … exogenous but anticipated shock of media coverage: Olympic Games and FIFA World Cups. Then, we estimate the effect of this media …

The last decades revealed the importance of mass media in a society. Regarding the Republic of Moldova the role of mass … media is influenced by some particularities of the economic, politic and social activities. Moldova is among the poorest … states from Europe and its political situation is still unstable. On the markets of mass media from Moldova there are in …

This article sheds light on the interaction of media, economic actors, and economic experts. Based on a unique data set … of 86,000 news items rated by professional analysts of Media Tenor International and survey data, we first analyze the … overall tone of the media, consumers’, firms’, and economic experts’ opinions on the state and outlook of the economy. Second …

This article sheds light on the interaction of media, economic actors, and economic experts. Based on a unique data set … of 86,000 news items rated by professional analysts of Media Tenor International and survey data, we first analyze the … overall tone of the media, consumers', firms', and economic experts' opinions on the state and outlook of the economy. Second …

Media market structures are changing constantly. Traditional media outlets such as newspapers are being hard-hit by the … digitalization of content, causing market exit and long-term consolidation in many countries. Competition policy in media markets is … pluralism. Accordingly, this paper analyzes the relationship between media market concentration and pluralism. In particular, we …

We survey the economics literature on media as it applies to the Internet. The Internet is an important driver behind … media convergence and connects information and communication technologies. While new Internet media share some properties … with traditional media, several novel features have appeared: On the content side, aggregation by third parties that have …

This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on commercial media bias (i.e., advertisers influence over media accuracy … three main policy insights for media regulators: i) Media regulators should target their monitoring efforts towards news …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias …

perceived corruption if the media market is not sufficiently developed. We study a sample of 169 countries between 2012 and 2018 …We explore a theory of media capture where a principal can either influence journalistic investigation (internal … capture) or let the media investigate and pay to suppress news stories at the publication stage (external capture). We predict …