We implement a new approach for estimating the persuasive effects of political advertising. Our empirical strategy … patterns during the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, our results indicate that total political advertising has virtually … contrast, we find a positive and economically meaningful effect of advertising on candidates’ vote shares. Evidence from a …

becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two …). We show that tracking may increase or decrease the provision of ads, depending on its effect on expected advertising …

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a …, and quantities of advertising of twenty-one TV channels from March 2008 to December 2013. We specify a structural model of … French TV advertising market is of the Cournot type. Further, we provide empirical evidence that the price-cost margin is not …

This paper studies the effect of advertising on content differentiation on YouTube, the second-most visited website in … the world. I demonstrate that an exogenous increase in the feasible advertising quantity leads to a considerable decrease …; thus, viewers who perceive advertising as a nuisance – and therefore as an implicit price they have to pay – could easily …

unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook …