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More ads, more revs? Is there a media bias in the likelihood to be reviewed?

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  • Dewenter, Ralf
  • Heimeshoff, Ulrich

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This note analyzes the existence of a possible media bias by determining the impact of automobile manufactures' advertisements on the probability that German car magazines review their products. By accounting for possible endogeneity, we find a positive impact of advertising volumes on test probability.

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  • Dewenter, Ralf & Heimeshoff, Ulrich, 2012. "More ads, more revs? Is there a media bias in the likelihood to be reviewed?," DICE Discussion Papers 57, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
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    1. Ralf Dewenter & Ulrich Heimeshoff, 2015. "Do expert reviews really drive demand? Evidence from a German car magazine," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(14), pages 1150-1153, September.

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