TY  - JOUR
AU  - DellaVigna, Stefano
AU  - Enikolopov, Ruben
AU  - Mironova, Vera
AU  - Petrova, Maria
AU  - Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
TI  - Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16989
PY  - 2011
Y2  - May 2011
DO  - 10.3386/w16989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16989
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16989.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Stefano DellaVigna
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel: 510/643-0715
Fax: 510/642-6615
E-Mail: sdellavi@econ.berkeley.edu

Ruben Enikolopov
New Economic School
Skolkovskoe shosse 45
Moscow, Russia
E-Mail: ruben.enikolopov@upf.edu

Vera Mironova
Department of Political Science
University of Maryland
E-Mail: vmironov@umd.edu

Maria Petrova
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27
Barcelona 08005
Spain
E-Mail: petrova.ma@gmail.com

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Paris School of Economics
48 Bd Jourdan
75014 Paris
France
E-Mail: ezhuravskaya@gmail.com
AB  - How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly attracted by non-political content, many Croats listen to Serbian public radio (intended for Serbs in Serbia) whenever signal is available. As a result, the vote for extreme nationalist parties is higher, and ethnically offensive graffiti are more common, in Croatian villages with Serbian radio reception. A laboratory experiment confirms that Serbian radio exposure causes anti-Serbian sentiment among Croats. 
ER  -