Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 3,
no. 4, October 2011
(pp. 119-51)
Abstract
We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable—a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption scandals of 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18 percent of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper Χ president and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects, as well as newspaper Χ president specific time trends. (JEL D72, K42, L82, M37, O17)Citation
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ignacio Franceschelli. 2011. "Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (4): 119-51. DOI: 10.1257/app.3.4.119Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- L82 Entertainment; Media
- M37 Advertising
- O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
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