Marcel Garz

Media Economics | Political Economy

6th Economics of Media Bias Workshop

We’re happy to announce that the next media bias workshop will take place on March 8 and 9, 2023, at ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. Julia Cagé and Theresa Kuchler will deliver keynote speeches. The workshop is organized by the Research Network...

Funding from Swedish Competition Authority

In a joint project entitled “Competition, multimarket contact, and quality of local newspaper coverage”, Mart Ots and I investigate the role of competition between media outlets for news quality. We use a combination of content analysis by human coders and...

5th Economics of Media Bias Workshop

We’re happy to announce that the next media bias workshop will take place on March 31 and April 1, 2022, at Berlin Social Science Center. Alois Stutzer will deliver the keynote speech. The program can be downloaded here.

Media influence on vote choices

In a recent study, Greg Martin and I investigate how news about the economy influences voting decisions. We isolate the effect of the information environment from the effect of change in the underlying economic conditions themselves, by taking advantage of left-digit...