The New York Times and the Market for Local Newspapers

By Lisa M. George, Joel Waldfogel. 2006

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Subfields: Marketing, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence From the Closure of The Cincinnati Post (2013, unknown): “George and Waldfogel (2006, 2008) showed that competition from The New York Times reduces local papers’ circulation among highly educated readers and makes those readers less likely to vote.”
• Superstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long Tail Phenomenon in Video Sales (2007, background): “…from being able to identify and purchase products that better match their preferences (e.g., Kahn and Lehmann 1991, Hoch, Bradlow and Wansink 1999, Iyengar and Lepper 2000, Chernev 2003, Waldfogel 2003, George and Waldfogel 2006, also see Häubl and Trifts 2000, and Lynch and Ariely 2000).”
• Media Sentiment and IPO Underpricing (2017, unknown): “For instance, George and Waldfogel (2006) analyze the success of the process of the New York Times becoming a nationally diffused newspaper and the role of technology in that process.”
• Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers: Extended Version (2012, unknown): “(9) Using the previous analysis of the monopoly prices indicates that as β → 0, PA(C, β, π) → α1πσ 2 and PB(C, β, π) → 0, while as β → 1, PA(C, β, π) → 0 and PB(C, β, π) → α1πσ(2).(24) The monopoly analysis also facilitates deriving further properties via the following adding up property, which foll”
• Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers (2014, methodology): “16 The relevant newspaper market has been alternately defined at other levels including the zip code (Chandra, 2009) and metropolitan statistical area (George and Waldfogel, 2006).”