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...

Surviving the Customer -- Zero-Sum Games in Traditional Marketing -- The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Emergence of Cooperation -- Consumer Revolt and the Rising Cost of Defection -- Sustaining Marketer-Consumer Cooperation through Coordination Games -- Crowdsourcing and Schelling’s Theory of...