newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns … relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies … benefit from a "self-correcting" mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform …

one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together … reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented …