Daniil Mikhailov is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford GSB. His research interests include Industrial Organization and Political Economy. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In new research, Andrey Simonov, Daniil Mikhailov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Ruben Durante estimate that when a 2016 law pushed Russia’s leading news aggregator Yandex to reduce its references to independent outlets, readers kept following its recommended news stories as before, reducing traffic to the excluded outlets. In response, excluded outlets changed the news they produced.