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Science under Threat? A Natural Experiment in Economics
Dominic Rohner, Oliver Vanden Eynde, Philine Widmer
Academic freedom has come under growing strain worldwide. To study whether and how academics respond to political pressure, we exploit a natural experiment: the publication in earl…
Who Owns the Online Media?
Ulrich Matter, Philine Widmer
Ownership matters for the media's watchdog role. We map the ownership networks behind thousands of online news outlets in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The networks reveal who is u…
Media Slant is Contagious
Philine Widmer, Clémentine Abed Meraim, Sergio Galletta +1
This paper examines the diffusion of media slant. We document the influence of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the partisan slant of local newspapers in the U.S. over the years 1995-2008…
RELATIO: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives
Elliott Ash, Germain Gauthier, Philine Widmer
Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives -- the stories in fiction, politics, and life -- shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This pape…