American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
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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