Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

Our special thanks go to Kristina Gulmac, Tihomir Zivic and to the University of Vukovar for the invaluable help with the organization of the lab experiment. We are very grateful to Ben Olken for providing the software necessary for ITM calculation. We also thank Bulat Gafarov, Roman Istomin, Blazo Kazanegra, Andrey Korolev, Gleb Romanyuk, and Ruslan Sverchkov for excellent research assistance. We thank Matthew Gentzkow, Irena Grosfeld, Ethan Kaplan, Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon, John Londregan, Tom Romer, John Schiemann, David Strömberg, and audiences at Columbia, Harvard, IIES at the University of Stockholm, IMT Lucca, Princeton, Zurich, Paris School of Economics, Stanford GSB, London School of Economics, UPF, Bocconi, the 8th Workshop on Media Economics, the NBER Summer Institute in Political Economics, University of Maryland, and Hebrew University for useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 5, 2011