Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Di Tella, Rafael; Franceschelli, Ignacio
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.3.4.119
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 119-151
• 关键词: Bias; INFORMATION; news; television; beliefs; MARKET; press

摘要

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 x president and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects, as well as newspaper x president specific time trends.