of the opposition politicians’ bribes. By revealed preference, the strongest check on the government’s power was the news … media. …

success in life depends more on luck than on effort, support more government redistribution, but are less confident in public …

-management are more likely to be published in economic journals and more likely to be cited. I also show that business schools …

multinational firms. This paper uses firm-level data from the World Business Environment Survey (WBES) to lend some empirical … government. In non- OECD countries - where we find no evidence of anti-foreign bias - multinationals appear significantly more …

Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news … coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State …

combining it with entertainment, media are able to inform passive voters on politically relevant issues. To show the impact this …We argue that profit-maximizing media help overcome the problem of "rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and … in so doing make elected representatives more sensitive to the interests of general voters. By collecting news and …

We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

there exists a distribution of resources such that democracy emerges in equilibrium, but there are distributions of … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers … results on the stability of democracy with regard to changes in the economic and demographic environment. The results are …

evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more …