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constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
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What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We …
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We set up an econometric model of persuasion and study identification of key parameters under various scenarios of data availability. We find that a commonly used measure of persuasion does not estimate the persuasion rate of any population in general. We provide formal identification results,...
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We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of …
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competition into the media market; conglomeration subsequently re-organized business and official newspapers from the same locale …
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In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We …
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We set up an econometric model of persuasion and study identification of key parameters under various scenarios of data availability. We find that a commonly used measure of persuasion does not estimate the persuasion rate of any population in general. We provide formal identification results,...
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implications of our findings for the regulation of media markets. …
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This study uses an original state-level data set to investigate whether press coverage on trials for tax evasion by celebrities affects the likelihood that other tax payers participate in Germany's tax amnesty program. To identify the causal effect, we use exogenous variation in the reporting,...
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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …
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