Watchdogs, Platforms and Audience: An Economic Perspective on Media Markets

Maria Rosa Battaggion and Alessandro Vaglio

Atlantic Economic Journal, 2015, vol. 43, issue 2, 209-228

Abstract: The present paper provides a basic model to describe the functioning of media markets. The authors use this general theoretical framework to illustrate the key economic contributions according to the two-sided literature and the media capture and media bias approaches. Particular attention is devoted to the issue of pluralism. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2015

Keywords: Media; Pluralism; Bias; Two-sided market; Press; Broadcasting; L1; L8; Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11293-015-9455-5

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