In an election over two policies, public mood swings whereby voters move ideologically towards a particular policy should never hurt its electoral performance. We find that this fundamental monotonicity property of preference aggregation cannot be guaranteed in the presence of a commercial...

The aim of this paper is to relate innovation with the broadcasters' business model, by way of a bibliometric and review analysis. This comprises to study how they have incorporated the innovation and the effect of a disruptive innovation (as the Internet and other technologies) in their...

A sizable literature on media bias suggests that media coverage is frequently biased towards certain political and economic positions. However, we know little about what drives variation in political and ideological bias in news coverage across countries. In this paper, we argue that...

This paper outlines the importance and role of non-product-related brand attributes, e.g., user imagery and usage imagery, in local news media content consumption by a younger audience aged 15-24. Due to technological developments, new media content consumption patterns have emerged. New...

We consider a Bayesian persuasion problem where a sender's utility depends only on the expected state. We show that upper censorship that pools the states above a cutoff and reveals the states below the cutoff is optimal for all prior distributions of the state if and only if the sender's...

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...

The rise of opinion programs has transformed television news. Because they present anchors' subjective commentary and analysis, opinion programs often convey conflicting narratives about reality. We experimentally document that people across the ideological spectrum turn to opinion programs over...

This paper presents a simple formal theoretical model to explain why citizens in authoritarian regimes trust the illiberal official media more than the commercial media. Media trust is defined as changes in the citizen's belief based on good or bad news from the media. Using this definition, the...

While research on traditional media brands has increased in recent years, few studies examine news media brands and their brand strategies, particularly distinctive brand associations unrelated to media brand content and their impact on audience media brand choice and attention. Numerous studies...

Der Beitrag analysiert den Zusammenhang von Lobbyismus und Medienwirtschaft auf zwei Ebenen. Erstens werden Medienunternehmen und andere Akteure der Medienwirtschaft als Lobbyisten ihrer Partikularinteressen betrachtet und dabei sowohl auf "klassische" Medien als auch auf datenbasierte...

This study investigates whether and how local air pollution shapes firm managers’ mobility when mass media raising public awareness. To establish causality, we introduce an exogenous shock of spatial changes for air pollution by conducting spatial regression discontinuity (RD) analyses across...

We examine the effect of news media consolidation on local business news dissemination and its consequences for local investors and capital markets. We use acquisitions of television stations by Sinclair Inc. as plausibly exogenous shocks to local news coverage since Sinclair is alleged to...

Search engines are one of the main channels to access news content of traditional newspapers. In the European Union, organic search traffic from Google accounts for 35% of news outlets’ visits. Yet, the effects of Google Search on market competition and information diversity are ambiguous, as...

Present paper is to understand the impact of OTT media service consumption on the use of the internet and comparing OTT service consumption and internet use on the lockdown period against pre-pandemic period.Quarterly secondary data from the year 2019 to 2020 are collected from the Indian...

This paper analyzes the effects of monetary stance on the media's favorable (or otherwise) attitude to the State Bank of Viet Nam's (SBV) monetary policy using monthly data from 2011 to 2021. Monetary stance is a multivariate index based on the growth rates of money supply and domestic credit. A...

Objective: The article’s objective is to identify how media could facilitate the effect of sustainable entrepreneurship on consumer purchase behaviour, based on evidence from the food industry in Nigeria. Research Design & Methods: The research population was experts who have sufficient...

R&D manipulation prevails in firms' application for high-tech enterprise certification. This paper provides evidence on how media coverage significantly inhibits firms' R&D manipulation behaviour by increasing citizens' concerns. Among all the media reports, original reports and in-depth reports...

Video games are an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback for a player. The typologies range from action games to adventure, role-playing, strategy, or sport games. Digitalization and web channels of fruition are embedded in most business...

Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The current paper develops a voting model where citizens are uncertain about the welfare effects induced by alternative policy options and derive information about those effects from...

In 2020, the Australian government produced a novel proposal to legislate to require designated digital platforms – initially Google and Facebook – to compensate news media businesses for news content. Although a handful of other jurisdictions had already used copyright regulation to require...

Media reports that a China Eximbank contract for Montenegro’s expensive mountain highway required land as collateral reflect reporters’ lack of understanding of normal international legal practice. Reporters erroneously - and perhaps deliberately - presented a standard sovereign immunity...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, amid collapsing revenues and a rising torrent of online misinformation and gender-based hate speech, States have a human rights-based obligation to ensure the survival of public interest media, most urgently through subsidies that can be funded by proper taxation...

Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism multiplier ). To assess the media multiplier, we employ a...

This paper examines the impact of partisan control of the media on news content and viewership by consumers with differing ideologies. We use data from Italy, where the main private television network is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the center-right coalition, and the public...

This paper examines the effect of a change in WSJ’s ownership in 2007 when it was acquired by News Corp., which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. We find that WSJ’s coverage of firms with board connections to News Corp. is 36.5% more positive, relative to New York Times (NYT), after its...

This paper proposes a new model of imperfect competition of ad-sponsored media, which can sell "free" products, for a merger analysis applicable to the mobile app industry. To analyze developers’ monetizing with both price and advertising in an app, we consider a consumer who faces both budget...

Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, a globalized information and...

We use data from Hungary to establish two results about the relationship between the government and the media. (1) We document large advertising favors from the government to connected media, and large corruption coverage favors from connected media to the government. Our empirical strategy...

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...

Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, threaten local newspapers’ ability to bundle their original local content with third-party content such as wire national news. We examine how the entry of television – with its...

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...

Research exploring how extra-legal institutional aspects might impact corporate investment policy in innovation is currently still in its early stages. This lack of research is even greater when it comes to studying the role of media attention in corporate innovation. Thus, this study extends...

Can media affect religious behavior? We study the effect of a drastic change in media landscape on religious participation in Poland, a country, where vast majority of the population considers itself Catholics. Before 2015, news on mainstream public and private media outlets had a similar...

The early years of the 21st Century have been characterized by an explosion of new "configurable" cultural forms and practices, such as mashups, remixes and machinima, enabled by rapidly proliferating global digital network technologies. These new cultural forms blur the distinctions between...

The study was conducted in order to determine the usefulness of new media to rice farmers’ solving farm-related problems. The respondents are purposively chosen. The rice farmers are from the four barangays in the Municipality of Munoz served as the respondents of the study. Twenty-five (25)...

The study presented in the paper aims to analyze the Russian print media market before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the prospects of local media transformation in the challenging environment. In the pre-pandemic decade, there was a growing body of literature on media convergence...

Culture is the most critical thing when driving innovation. This paper aims to discuss the counter-hegemony of Drama Gong against modern entertainment arts today with the dynamics of openness innovation. The research method used is qualitative and uses triangulation analysis. Basic qualitative...