We empirically investigate the relevance of multi-homing in two-sided markets. First, we build a micro-founded structural econometric model that encompasses demand for differentiated products and allows for multi-homing on both sides of the market. We then use an original dataset on the Italian...

Die Digitalisierung hat Medienmärkte grundlegend verändert: Statt begrenzten Funkfrequenzen und festen Programm, werden Medieninhalte über unterschiedlichste Kanäle verteilt, erstellt, geteilt und diskutiert. Digitale Plattformen haben den Konsum grundlegend verändert und ermöglichen es...

Ad-avoidance technologies such as ad-blocking devices in browsers have become mainstream tools in recent years and escaped their role as niche applications that are only for the technically savvy. While technical impacts of those tools are well researched, their effects on actual consumer...

In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we investigate if – in contrast to the standard model – the...

International agreements to reduce anthropogenic environmental disasters rely on public pressure driving local action. We study whether focused media and increased public outcry can drive local environmental action, reducing environmental damage. Although an annual affair, forest fires in the...

This article sheds light on the impact of the media on economists' expectations for future economic developments. We conducted a worldwide economic expert survey and find that the media provides most economists with valuable information that influences their expectations. This applies...

Social media platforms ban users and remove posts to moderate their content. This "speech policing" remains controversial because little is known about its consequences and the costs and benefits for different individuals. I conduct two pre-registered field experiments on Twitter to examine the...

The dynamics of online news and political outcomes have been of high interest in various research fields in recent years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test slanting toward different political actors. For the...

Over the last decade, watching videos online has become one of the primary uses of the internet, with streaming services accounting for more than 60% of global internet traffic. In this paper we use a novel data set on Netflix, the largest streaming platform worldwide, to estimate the patterns...

Die meisten kulturellen Einrichtungen bzw. Betriebe mit künstlerischem Anspruch wie Theater und Orchester werden betrieblich mitbestimmt. Allerdings gelten für sie Einschränkungen als Tendenzbetriebe, insbesondere sollen Nicht-Künstler nicht in künstlerischen Belangen mitbestimmen, weshalb...