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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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This chapter investigates how media coverage filters information and how this affects political accountability and … policy. I first present a baseline model of media coverage and its effect on political accountability. The model is used to … discuss the welfare consequences of private provision of news. It shows how media regulation and public broadcasting may …
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The Internet provides media firms with an unparalleled opportunity to target advertising towards their consumers. This … paper considers how targeted advertising affects different media markets. I show that media firm profits rise and … advertising prices rise the most with the ability to target advertising in more competitive media markets and those in which …
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This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how … media environments, characterized by their levels of accessibility and variety of content, interact with citizens … which politicians react to those media-influenced views. We show how equilibrium polarization is affected by changes in the …
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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 …
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Media industries are important drivers of popular culture. A large fraction of leisure time is devoted to radio …, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and television (the illustrative example henceforth). Most advertising expenditures are … incurred for these media. They are also mainly supported by advertising revenue. Early work stressed possible market failures …
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