Recent decades have seen major changes to the local media environment in the United States, with the absorption of many …

predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … migration. Exploiting news reports, we find that successful attacks receive more media coverage from local and regional …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …

This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …

What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We …

We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of …