The dynamics of online news and political outcomes have been of high interest in various research fields in recent years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test slanting toward different political actors. For the...

This paper analyses the interdependency between the market formusic recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positiveindirect network eects both from the record market to ticket sales forlive performances and vice versa. Using a model with two interrelatedSalop circles we show...

Mass-medias are characterized by at least two interrelated markets. Therefore,the media firm has to satisfy two interdependent demands,the demand for magazines and the demand for advertising.The utility of the readers is affected by the information of the editorial and the advertising share.The...

This paper analyses the interdependency between the market for music recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positive indirect network effects both from the record market to ticket sales for live performances and vice versa. Using a model with two interrelated Salop circles we...

There is a wide range of magazines, newspapers, TV shows, and websites providing information on products based on product reviews or expert opinions. A natural question is, whether these reviews and expert opinions have effects on product sales. There is a small but growing literature in...

This paper investigates the existence of a possible media bias by analyzing the impact of automobile manufacturer's advertisements on automobile reviews in a leading German car magazine. By accounting for both endogeneity and sample selection using a two-step procedure, we find a positive impact...

This paper analyses the incentives of a vertical integrated Internet service provider (ISP) to block competitors from content markets. Using a simple model we find that the ISP does not block competing content providers as long as the contents are differentiated sufficiently. Exclusion only...

Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Literaturüberblick zum Thema Media Bias, d.h. zu verzerrten Inhalten in der Medienberichterstattung. Es werden Gründe für die Entstehung von Media Bias diskutiert und die in der Fachliteratur beschriebenen Methoden zur Messung erläutert.

We investigate if four leading, electronic news gathering organizations in the US - ABC News, CBS News, FOX News, and NBC News - fulfill their role as the fourth estate in the US democracy. Our analysis, using the Political Coverage Index (PCI) introduced by Dewenter et al (2020), is based on...

The digital dividend is the amount of spectrum that is freed up by the switch over from analogue TV to digital terrestrial TV in the UHF band. Drawing from a research project (Braulke et al. 2010) commissioned by the Austrian regulator RTR, this article prioritizes, analyses and evaluates the...