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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports
Kane, Edward J. - 2003
Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...
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Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs
Dafny, Leemore - 2005
The use of government-mandated report cards to diminish uncertainty about the quality of products and services is widespread. However, report cards will have little effect if they simply confirm consumers' prior beliefs. Moreover, documented "responses" to report cards may reflect learning about...
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Who Owns the Media?
Djankov, Simeon - 2001
We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. We find that almost universally the … largest media firms are owned by the government or by private families. Government ownership is more pervasive in broadcasting … than in the printed media. Government ownership of the media is generally associated with less press freedom, fewer …
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Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content
Lindo, Jason M. - 2020
We document the immediate and long-term effects of violent media. Specifically, we evaluate the effects of The Ultimate …
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Learning from Shared News : When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization
Bowen, T. Renee; Dmitriev, Danil; Galperti, Simone - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
opposite extreme beliefs resulting in severe polarization. Our results hold without media bias or fake news, so eliminating …
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Biases in Information Selection and Processing : Survey Evidence from the Pandemic
Faia, Ester; Fuster, Andreas; Pezone, Vincenzo; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How people form beliefs is crucial for understanding decision-making under uncertainty. This is particularly true in a situation such as a pandemic, where beliefs will affect behaviors that impact public health as well as the aggregate economy. We conduct two survey experiments to shed light on...
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Media and Social Capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a … social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media … networks they create, as well as individual characteristics and media consumption choices …
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Pop Internationalism : Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
Ferreira, Fernando - 2010
Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...
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Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions
Bajari, Patrick - 2008
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has used auctions to award spectrum since 1994. During this time period, the FCC has experimented with a variety of auctions rules including click box bidding and anonymous bidding. These rule changes make the actions of bidders less visible during the...
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