Sobel, Russell S.; Dutta, Nabamita; Roy, Sanjukta - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2009
reform and spreads media freedom between countries. Using spatial econometric techniques, and a sample of 102 countries, we … test for the presence of geographic spillovers in media freedom. We find that a country’s level of media freedom … significantly depends on its neighbors. Countries ‘catch’ approximately 20 percent of their media freedom from neighboring countries …