We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of …

contributes to the emerging field of media economics by studying how the demand side of the media market affects news production …

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers …

This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where … monopoly media firms choose to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the media firms to be financed … by advertising as well. The closer substitutes the media firms’ products are, the less they rely on consumer payment and …

year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly involved in social networking or are part of the media industry. We … our analysis confirm that activity and reciprocation both play a role in the dynamics of social media. …

Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … multiplier ). To assess the media multiplier, we employ a triple-difference empirical strategy exploiting the staggered …

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more …