Essays on Political Economy of Media and Trust
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2018

The current essays generally concern the topic of inter-personal, inter-institutional, person-to-institution, and institution-to-person communications as well as their reliability as means of information transmission and impact on other aspects of economic activity. In particular, the essays are focused on news media, trust in media and the bias of the latter, and inter-personal trust. The first chapter investigates the issue of news media capture in perfectly competitive environment. The second