Ruben Durante

Ruben Durante is professor of economics and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore and ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. He is also Research Fellow at CEPR, ABFER, CESifo, and IZA, affiliated faculty to the Barcelona School of Economics and IPEG, Research Advisor at Gallup, Research Professor at Ifo, and serves as associate editor for the Economic Journal. He has held visiting positions at Yale University and PSE.

Media Capture Doesn’t Need the Newsroom

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.

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