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A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria : From AOL-Time Warner to Comcast-NBC
Thierer, Adam D. - 2014
The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070497
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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729
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Coups, regime transition, and the dynamics of press freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887081
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Coups, regime transition, and the dynamics of press freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892537
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Coups, regime transition, and the dynamics of press freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian; Freytag, Andreas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894357
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The Fourth's Estate
Woodcock, Ramsi - 2021
, have acceded to the advertising monopolies once enjoyed by the newspaper industry itself. Despite the best efforts of the … to users and better advertising opportunities to advertisers, so breakup is not appropriate, and is unlikely to restore … news. A better solution to the funding crisis would be for government to divide the advertising distribution market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211924
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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention
Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - 2009
Properties of blogging networks are derived from a model where bloggers devote attention to others, produce content for others, and exchange attention with content within their network of relations. The predictions from the model are tested with a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213425
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Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain : An Empirical Assessment
Erickson, Kris; Heald, Paul J.; Homberg, Fabian; … - 2015
The purpose of this research study is 1) to map the size of the public domain and frequency of its use; 2) analyse the role of public domain works in value creation for UK businesses; 3) assist creators and entrepreneurs to identify business models that benefit from the public domain. In addition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137680
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Gender Differences in Lying in Sender-Receiver Games : A Meta-Analysis
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....
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