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Lazily Informed: Consumer Inertia and News Diets

This paper studies the effect of entertainment shows on the propensity to watch the news through viewers? inertia on channel choice. It uses the legally-induced cancellation of the game-show Pasapalabra in 2019 to study audience inertia around news- …

Forecasted Learning

We consider a Bayesian decision maker (DM) who, before making a decision, needs to allocate her limited attention across news sources with different biases. When choosing what news to read, the DM expects to receive some additional information in the …