Is the Internet Bad News? The Online News Era and the Market for High-Quality News
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- Frijters Paul & Velamuri Malathi, 2010. "Is the Internet Bad News? The Online News Era and the Market for High-Quality News," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 1-33, June.
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Keywords
News quality; Internet; Monopolies; Search Costs; Advertising;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CUL-2009-06-17 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-ICT-2009-06-17 (Information and Communication Technologies)
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