This paper proposes a novel methodology to identify the geographic market of local newspapers when information on their diffusion is not available or is not sufficiently granular. We illustrate the methodology using historical data from 154 newly digitized newspapers published in Italy between...

Preface; Introduction: A Pandemic Stress Test; 1. A Digital Dark Age for Newspapers; 2. The Staying Power of the Press; 3. Press Freedom and Proliferation; 4. The National Press: From Propaganda to Profit; 5. The Provincial Press: The Problem of Free; 6. What if Newspapers Aren't Dying?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Early Years, 1876 - 1933 -- The Early Years -- Entry into the Texarkana Newspaper Business -- Failure in Fort Smith and Palmer's Expansion -- CHAPTER 2 The Palmer Group, 1933 - 1957 -- The Growth...

Boken tecknar den samlade göteborgska tidningshistorien (1920 2020). Historien berättas mot bakgrund av den allmänna politiska, ekonomiska och branschspecifika utvecklingen. Tidningarnas ekonomi och marknadsförhållanden får stort utrymme, men också det journalistiska innehållet beskrivs....

This paper, "Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers" to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104

We use data on US newspapers from the early 20th century to study the economic incentives that shape ideological diversity in the media. We show that households prefer like-minded news, and that newspapers seek both to cater to household tastes and to differentiate from their competitors. We...

We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...

Pricing pressure indices have recently been proposed as alternative screening devices for horizontal mergers involving differentiated products. We extend the concept of Upward Pricing Pressure (UPP) proposed by Farrell and Shapiro (2010) to two-sided markets. Examples of such markets are the...

We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...

We compare different methods to assess unilateral merger effects in a two-sided market by applying them to a hypothetical merger in the Dutch newspaper industry. For this, we first specify and estimate a structural model of demand for differentiated products on both the readership and the...

"The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance (1760-1820). Britain had a precociously commercial newspaper press,...

We develop a structural econometric framework that allows us to simulate the effects of mergers among two-sided platforms selling differentiated products. We apply the proposed methodology to the Dutch newspaper industry. Our structural model encompasses demands for differentiated products on...