This study analyses the impact of social media popularity on the global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market using a sample of 66,905 M&A transactions across 50 countries for the sample period from 2011 to 2017. Social media influence on M&A transactions is tested using competing bids and...

Information is a powerful tool used in any society and by any nation to create excepted perception of reality. Russian information operations have always been a very interesting example of using various media to manipulate international and domestic opinion in support of national (government)...

We develop an advertising strategy for durable goods firms applying a dual time-period model while considering three-stage game in a Cournot competition. We assume that firms employ two advertising approaches; one is online advertising, which escalates consumers' willingness to purchase goods...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

Die Theorie mehrseitiger Marktplätze hat sich seit den ersten Arbeiten von Rochet/Tirole (2003), Evans (2003) und Evans/Schmalensee (2007) und ihrer Übertragung auf Medienmärkte durch Dewenter (2006) und Dewenter/Haucap (2009) zur Analyse von Plattformmärkten im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs...

Eine Analyse der Arbeitsbedingungen und Löhne von über 1000 Medienschaffenden in der Schweiz. Die Medienbranche ist seit Jahren einem tiefgreifenden strukturellen Wandel unterworfen, der sich ganz unmittelbar auf die Arbeitsbedingungen, die Arbeitsweise und Einkommenssituation der...

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

In the past decade, platforms like Apple, Google, Amazon or Netflix started to enter and dominate the media and communication sector. Authorities and regulators are struggling to assess those powerful companies since years. By outlining contemporary power structures under consideration of issues...

This paper introduces two modifications to standard models of two-sided media markets. In the first modification, we consider strategic agents by allowing advertisers to invest in the quality of their ads. This leads to qualitatively different econometric specifications to estimate group...

In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...

Business accelerators are playing a key role in facilitating the process of new venture creation. Start-ups generally look for the best accelerators to make their long journey short. Media start-ups also look for a supportive mechanism to fasten their start-up experience. In this process, one of...

The rise of the Internet and the emergence of social media platforms have raised several questions concerning the exercise of the right to free speech as well as its judicial protection which fall under the constitutional umbrella.1 In particular, the phenomenon of social media influencers has...

Although digital advertising is a rapidly growing form of political communication, the effectiveness of digital ad campaigns remains largely unknown. We present results from a randomized experiment in which online campaign ads targeted randomly selected small cities in the context of a Texas...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

Advertising and media : separation and integration -- News media and marketing -- Branded entertainment and product integration -- Brand content direct to you : marketers' 'owned' media -- Going native in digital media -- Media as marketers -- Regulating convergent media and marketing...

Introduction / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartlomiej Lódzki -- Dilemmas and uncertainty : seven research challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech -- The Uberisation of higher education : datafied dynamics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic / Göran Bolin -- An...

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine economic effects of these types of mergers on market...

Conversations about the internet in the 2010s tended to go along one of two distinct tracks. One track pointed to the new affordances of digital and social media. The other focused upon the growing concentration of ownership and control over the internet by a small number of giant digital...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of mediaplanning in the information management system. In our opinion, the basis of the development of a network society is not only the development of information technologies, but the growth and complication of social interactions, which take the form of...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of impact of media transformation on advertising products. We focused on the trends in the transformation of media consumption and the related adjustment of advertisers' activity. As a result of the media transformation, advertisers and advertising agencies...

In response to a request for comment from the Federal Trade Commission, this report is divided into three parts:• The FTC's continuing leadership in consumer protection for Internet access• Competition and consumer protection in a changing communications industry• Competition and consumer...

We assess the impact of media sentiment on international equity prices using more than 4.5 million Reuters articles published across the globe between 1991 and 2015. News sentiment robustly predicts daily returns in both advanced and emerging markets, even after controlling for known...

India faces a severe challenge to ensure adequate nutrition for children and women. Chronic child nutrition deficiency is more prevalent in Madhya Pradesh state of India. Spirulina, multicellular and filamentous cyanobacterium are considered an absolute food supplement to combat malnutrition in...

Recent literature suggests that news shocks could be an important driver of economic cycles. In this article, we use a direct measure of news sentiment derived from media reports. This allows us to examine whether innovations in the reporting tone correlate with changes in the assessment and...

This study explores the interdependence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate performance using a sample of companies from the media industry in the Republic of Croatia. Our primary aim was to empirically test hypothesized positive relationship between CSR and corporate...

A field of research that attracts increasing attention from scholars is the impact of the information environment on corporate innovation. In this article, I review the research from three points of view in relation to the information environment: (i) managers' voluntary disclosure, (ii)...

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine economic effects of these types of mergers on market...

Using a novel dataset of news events for 170,000 entities across over 100 countries, we find that media sentiment plays an important role in the market for merger and acquisition. Firms with high media sentiment are more likely to become an acquirer. The effect of media on the likelihood of an...