Ruben Enikolopov

Ruben Enikolopov is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a Research Professor at Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and a Researcher at Barcelona Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). He is also a Research Fellow for the CEPR and CESifo, and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre.

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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