Mass Media Economics 2002
Preliminary Program
London, 28-29 June 2002
Location: Michio Morishima Room (R505)
LSE Research Laboratory
Lionel Robbins Building
entrance in 10 Portugal Street
London WC2.
Organizers: Tim Besley and Andrea Prat
Administrative Support: Kate Perry (k.perry@lse.ac.uk, 020.7955.6691)
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
Registration and coffee |
| 11:15-13:00 |
Introduction: TBA
Chair: Leonardo Felli (LSE)
(World Bank) "Who Owns the Media?" [download pdf]
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago) "The Corporate Governance Role of the Media" [download pdf]
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 |
Chair: Peter Davis (LSE)
Gregory Crawford (Duke University) "Empirical Modeling of Endogenous Quality Choice: The Case of Cable Television" [download pdf]
Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Wharton) "Electoral Acceleration: The Effect of Minority Population on Minority Voter Turnout" [download pdf]
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| 15.30 - 16.00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Chair:
Stephen Coate (Cornell) "Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting" [download pdf]
Austan Goolsbee (University of Chicago) "The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable Television" [download pdf]
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| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Reception |
| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Coffee |
| 9.30 - 11.00 |
Chair: Robin Burgess (LSE)
Maxwell McCombs (University of Texas, Austin) "The Agenda-Setting Role of Mass Media in the Shaping of Public Opinion" [download pdf]
Valentino Larcinese (LSE) "The Instrumental Voter Goes to the News-agent: Demand for Information, Election Closeness, and the Media" [download pdf]
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| 11.00 - 11.30 |
Coffee break |
| 11.30 - 13.00 |
Shanto Iyengar (Stanford University) "Experimental Designs for Political Communication Research: From Shopping Malls to the Internet" [download pdf]
David Strömberg (Stockholm University) "Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy" [download pdf]
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| 13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30 - 16.15 |
Tim Besley (LSE) "Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand: Media Capture and Political Accountability" [download pdf]
Sendhil Mullainathan (MIT) "Media Bias" [download pdf]
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To attend please complete the form and return to Kate Perry k.perry@lse.ac.uk
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