Alesina, AlbertoSnyder, James M.Campante, FilipeAbramov, Egor2019-05-202018-052018-04-272018http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:40050016The current essays generally concern the topic of inter-personal, inter-institutional, person-to-institution, and institution-to-person communications as well as their reliability as means of information transmission and impact on other aspects of economic activity. In particular, the essays are focused on news media, trust in media and the bias of the latter, and inter-personal trust. The first chapter investigates the issue of news media capture in perfectly competitive environment. The second chapter demonstrates increasing political polarization of US newspapers. The last chapter focuses on the impact of income on inter-personal trust.application/pdfenEconomics, GeneralPolitical Science, GeneralThesis or Dissertation2019-05-20