News consumption and media bias

Marketing Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 611-628

  Xiang, Yi ^a   Sarvary, Miklos ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Complements; Information goods; Media competition; Media positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549158982     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1070.0279     Document Type: Article

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