Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany – due to their geographic location – could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

How does competition from online platforms affect the organization, performance, and editorial choices of newspapers … for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or … resulted in a decline in newspaper readership which was not compensated by increased news consumption on other media. Finally …

accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed—Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …

access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post …

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …