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“The Enemy of My Enemy Is (Not) My Friend”: A More-Than-Economic Inquiry into Fighting Private Fake News with Public Propaganda [PDF]
Amfiteatru EconomicThe rapid proliferation of private fake news has revived calls for stronger public intervention in the governance of information. Yet the institutional response often raises a paradox of its own: can decentralized falsehood legitimately be countered ...
Octavian-Dragomir Jora +4 more
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The Contributions of the Economics of Information to Twentieth Century Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 In the field of economics, perhaps the most important break with the past - one that leaves open huge areas for future work - lies in the economics of information. It is now recognized that information is imperfect, obtaining information can be costly, there are important asymmetries of information, and the extent of information asymmetries is affected
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Lexicographical and Translation Issues in the Inclusion of English
Hermes, 2014 This is a crossroads time for dictionaries in print in general and for bilingual dictionaries of Economics in print in particular. A time when the prevalence of information technologies supposedly makes access to specialized lexicographical ...
José Mateo Martinez
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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Legal uncertainty, competition law enforcement procedures and optimal penalties [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper we make three contributions to the literature on optimal Competition Law enforcement procedures. The first (which is of general interest beyond competition policy) is to clarify the concept of “legal uncertainty”, relating it to ideas in ...
Ulph, David Tregear, Katsoulacos, Yannis
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata +4 more
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Poor Information: How Economics Affects the Information Lives of Low-Income Individuals
International Journal of Communication, 2018 This article applies economic principles to an exploration of how information is produced for, acquired by, and utilized by low-income individuals in the United States.
James T. Hamilton, Fiona Morgan
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci +4 more
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Department of Economics and Business newsletter Spring 2022
, 2022 Prior to 2021, the department was called the Division of Economics and ...
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