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dc.contributor.authorKind, Hans Jarle
dc.contributor.authorSchjelderup, Guttorm
dc.contributor.authorStähler, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-13T12:14:25Z
dc.date.available2012-03-13T12:14:25Z
dc.date.issued2011-09
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/163372
dc.description.abstractMany countries levy reduced-rate indirect taxes on newspapers, with proclaimed policy goals of stimulating investment in journalism and ensuring low newspaper prices. However, by taking into account the fact that the media industry operates in two-sided markets, we find the paradoxical result that the consequences of a low-tax regime might be quite the opposite; low investments and high prices. We also show that the low-tax regime tends to increase newspaper differentiation. If the advertising market is relatively small, the newspapers might invest too little in journalism and be too differentiated from a social point of view. In this case a tax increase will be welfare-enhancing.no_NO
dc.language.isoengno_NO
dc.publisherNorwegian School of Economics, Department of Economicsno_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion Papers;16/2011
dc.subjecttwo-sided marketsno_NO
dc.subjectad-valorem taxesno_NO
dc.titleNewspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism: The Role of Tax Policyno_NO
dc.typeWorking paperno_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212no_NO


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