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In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium amount of entertainment in news coverage of newspapers and television … both media outlets to incorporate more entertaining elements in news coverage. The introduction of commercial television …, however, which leads to a unilateral fall in the distance costs to the television broadcast, yields different results. It …
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favorites, to events with uncertain outcomes. We test for LA vs. UOH effects in television viewing audience data for free over …
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Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is …
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Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is …
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We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are sufficiently close substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising...
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important recreation activity of Americans: television viewing. Our results are not consistent with a view that the Internet … would have a massive impact on television viewing. Instead, we find that the effect of the Internet on television viewing …
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We develop a model to study the political economy implications of information gatekeeping, i.e., a policy of granting access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting access improves her re-election probability only if...
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