We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from …

Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub … a micro level measure of corruption based on the personal experiences of individuals, which realistically represents the … African countries that contains information of more than 50,000 citizens. Corruption is found being negatively correlated with …

covering politics. These organizational changes led to a reduction in news coverage of politics and political corruption, and … resulted in a decline in newspaper readership which was not compensated by increased news consumption on other media. Finally …

daily newspaper coverage. It finds sanctions to have significant effects on exchange rates, inflation, and output growth …