What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany

Joan Calzada
Joan Calzada
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2976-1677
Department of Economics and BEAT, Universitat de Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;
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Ricard Gil
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Ricard Gil
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-0988
Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2P3, Canada
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Joan Calzada

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2976-1677

Department of Economics and BEAT, Universitat de Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;

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Ricard Gil

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Ricard Gil

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-0988

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2P3, Canada

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Published Online:30 Dec 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2019.1150

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