build a new county-level panel dataset of local newspaper presence, newspapers' newsrooms, costs and revenues and political … conditions under which an increase in the number of newspapers can decrease both the quantity and quality of news provided. I … turnout in France, from 1944 to 2014. I estimate the effect of newspaper entry by comparing counties that experience entry to …

's 2019 federal election. These findings shed light on the role of partisan media in shaping electoral outcomes by influencing …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

district for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election … natives due to fiercer competition for jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election … election results and district-specific features to study a potentially causal effect. As the share of foreigners in a district …