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Manipulated News Model : Electoral Competition and Mass Media

Miura, Shintaro - 2018

This paper investigates the relationship between media manipulation, the strategic suppression of relevant information by mass media, and self-mediatization, the strategic exploitation of media coverage by candidates, in elections. In the model, a voter cannot directly observe the policies...

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Reputation in team production

Glazer, Amihai; Segendorff, Björn - 2001 - Rev. March 1, 2001

leader concerned about his reputation may therefore prefer to work with a person unlikely to do Right. -- Reputation ; team …

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Information aggregation in Poisson elections

Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...

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Re-Examining Voter Turnout in Large Elections

Taylor, Curtis R.; Yildirim, Huseyin - 2009

A well-known shortcoming of rational voter models is that the equilibrium probability that an individual votes converges to zero as the population of citizens tends to infinity. We show that this does not - as is often suggested - imply that equilibrium voter turnout is insignificant in the...

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Chapter 14. Media Bias in the Marketplace : Theory

Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.; Stone, Daniel F. - 2015

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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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Last minute policies and the incumbency advantage

Manzoni, Elena; Penczynski, Stefan P. - 2014

's effective ability; however, the distortions may be increasing in the incumbent's reputation of expertise on his signature issue. …

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The credibility of financial reporting : a reputation-based approach

Liang, Ying; Marinovic, Iván; Varas, Felipe - 2017

This paper studies the reliability of financial reporting when the credibility of the manager, represented by his … misreporting propensity, is unknown. We show that credibility concerns affect the time-series of reported earnings, book values …, and stock prices in ways that seem consistent with empirical evidence. When investors are uncertain about the credibility …

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Mass Media and Special Interest Groups

Petrova, Maria - 2012

Media revenues are an important determinant of media behavior. It is generally accepted that news coverage depends not only on the preferences of media consumers but also on the preferences of advertisers or subsidizing groups. However, existing models reach the opposite conclusions about the...

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The Role of the Media in Takeovers : Theory and Evidence

Buehlmaier, Matthias M. M. - 2016

Using text-based media content, this paper develops and empirically confirms a theory that explains how the media predicts takeover outcomes. It shows that positive media content about the acquirer predicts takeover success. Relative to other predictors proposed in the literature, the media...

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