The market for news

American Economic Review

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1031-1053

  Mullainathan, Sendhil ^a   Shleifer, Andrei ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29544443489     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/0002828054825619     Document Type: Review

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