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The Impact of Democracy and Press Freedom on Corruption : Conditionality Matters
Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2021
This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … is a certain degree of press freedom in a country, vice versa. Our policy implication is that democratic reforms are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315866
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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … freedom, whereas countries without effective monitoring suffer from decentralization. Our policy implication is that a free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316367
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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L. - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984498
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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices
Anderson, Simon P. - 2011
Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions to the combined assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117358
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Business Models for Media Firms : Does Competition Matter for How They Raise Revenue?
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2009
The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence the way media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers (or the readers, if we consider newspapers), or by both. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157846
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions — and particularly trust in banks, business and government — has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128039
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E-Lections : Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105145
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Media, Fake News, and Debunking
Van Long, Ngo - 2018
We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for one provider or the other and value real news. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919058
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Cautionary Tales : Celebrities, the News Media, and Participation in Tax Amnesties
Garz, Marcel; Pagels, Verena - 2021
This study uses an original state-level data set to investigate whether press coverage on trials for tax evasion by celebrities affects the likelihood that other tax payers participate in Germany’s tax amnesty program. To identify the causal effect, we use exogenous variation in the reporting,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315439
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Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias
Bernhardt, Dan; Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021
Many political commentators diagnose an increasing polarization of the U.S. electorate into two opposing camps. However, in standard spatial voting models, changes in the political preference distribution are irrelevant as long as the position of the median voter does not change. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317647