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Peter DiCola

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E-Mail: pcdicola@yahoo.com
Personal website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pcdicola/

Interests: Media Industries, Radio, Music
Role(s): Researcher
Location(s) of Work: USA

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)

Department of Economics
University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Graduate Student

Past Affiliations

Discipline(s)

Economics
Law

Biography

Peter DiCola is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in May 2005, and was awarded the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. While in graduate school, he worked with the Future of Music Coalition as Director of Economic Analysis from 2000–2004 and served as full-time Research Director from 2005–2006. He is the co-author, with Kristin Thomson, of Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians? (2002) and the author of False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry (2006). His article “Employment and Wage Effects of Radio Consolidation” appeared as a chapter in the collection Media Diversity and Localism (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2006). He is writing his dissertation on regulation of the radio and music industries.

Publications and Resources

Reports

Carolyn Byerly, Peter DiCola, Michael Yan, Jamila A. Cupid, Kehbuma Langmia. Does Bigger Media Equal Better Media? Four Academic Studies of Media Ownership in the United States. 2006.
Peter DiCola. False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry. 2006.
Peter DiCola. False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Consolidation in the Radio Industry. 2006.

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