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This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely implications of existing behavioral theories of media effects, developed outside of economics.
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in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education … findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …
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distribution of VAR impulse response estimators is undermined by the estimator’s bias. A natural conjecture is that impulse … estimators tend to have both higher bias and higher variance, resulting in pointwise impulse response confidence intervals that …
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choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner …
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We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policy-maker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truth telling, we show that the...
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This paper investigates, in a simplified macro context, the joint determination of the (incorrect) perceived model and the equilibrium. I assume that the model is designed by a self-interested economist who knows the true structural model, but reports a distorted one so as to influence outcomes....
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illustrates the tight link between parameter identification and the scope for bias that is generated by the autocoherence …
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We consider a lie-catching experiment with 9240 judgements. A set of videotapes shows subjects participating in a tax … compliance experiment. The subjects chose whether or not to misreport. Subjects knew that underreporters were chosen for an audit … the tax compliance experiment was higher. This suggests that, when subjects can choose whether to state the truth or to …
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We find evidence for the behavioral biases of anchoring and loss aversion. We find that anchoring is more important for …. The evidence in favor of anchoring and loss aversion with this large dataset validates previous results and adds to the …
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We study the convergence of European bond markets and the anchoring of inflation expectations in euro area countries … substantial increase in the anchoring of long-term inflation expectations since EMU, particularly for Italy and Spain, which since …
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