We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are sufficiently close substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising...

Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...

In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life satisfaction. In this note we argue that the empirical approach they use (an approach that omits the main effect of TV viewing in life satisfaction) is problematic. We estimate...

Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the organization of free time is...

Seit 1989 ist es auf dem japanischen Fernsehmarkt im Zuge der Senkung der Markteintrittsbarrieren zum vermehrten Marteintritt von Kabel- und Satellitenfernsehanbietern gekommen. Gefördert durch die daraus resultierende Einführung eines Trennungsmodells der Fernsehanbieter, die Digitalisierung...

In diesem Beitrag werden die strategischen Interaktionen bei der Programmwahl privater und öffentlich-rechtlicher TV-Anbieter mit Hilfe eines einfachen spieltheoretischen Modelies untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich unter anderem, daß die in der gegenwärtigen medienpolitischen Diskussion heftig...

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo - the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country - across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...

Under the current market structure in the TV industry advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g., cable operators). The latter implies that the distributors partly internalize the competition between the TV channels, since they take into...

We perform principal components analyses of the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment and TV sentiment in order to gain information on their structure and information content. By introducing the new sentiment variable TV sentiment, gathered from sentiment from statements from over...