Barone, Guglielmo; D'Acunto, Francesco; Narciso, Gaia - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
Can biased information persuade in the long run? Political information on Italian TV has been biased towards Berlusconi's party since 1994. We exploit a shock to viewers' exposure to Berlusconi bias: idiosyncratic deadlines to switch to digital TV from 2008 to 2012. Digital TV increased the...