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Can leaders persuade? : examining movement in immigration beliefs

Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - 2022

Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...

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Should utility-reducing media advertising be taxed?

Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2009

Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...

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Advertising, competition and entry in media industries

Crampes, Claude (contributor); … - 2005

This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a...

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Follow the money : online piracy and self-regulation in the advertising industry

Batikas, Michail; Claussen, Jörg; Peukert, Christian - 2018

In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...

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(Why) are economists different?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard (contributor) - 2005

After presenting some casual evidence about the difference between economists and the rest of the population, first the survey and experimental evidence which has been presented on this topic during the last 20 years is discussed. But can these results really be transferred to real world...

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Transparency and policy competition : experimental evidence from German citizens and politicians

Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2023

groups before their scholar curriculum reduce political opinion gap, and increase friendship formation. Using the pairwise … differences in opinions by 40% of the standard deviation of opinion gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily … opinion gaps by reducing divergence, therefore polarization and extremism, without forcing individuals' views to converge …

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In-group bias in preferences for redistribution : a survey experiment in Italy

Bruni, Riccardo; Gioffré, Alessandro; Marino, Maria - 2023

Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are generally inelastic to information. However, we find that provision of...

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Lobbying and bribes : a survey-based analysis of the demand for influence and corruption

Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2011

We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political influence, their perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption/bribes are uncorrelated at the firm level; (b) firms that...

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Who is afraid of school choice?

Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...

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