the fact that over time the reform program changes from 'first-generation' to more complex 'second-generation' policy …

need to implement far-reaching reforms, to increase growth to a range of 6-7 percent and improve employment creation to …

relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies …This paper explores the dynamics of media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis from about a billion … newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns …

assessing local media coverage of Doing Business and implementation of business regulatory reforms. The tested hypothesis is … that countries with higher media coverage of Doing Business tend to carry out more business regulatory reforms, assuming … one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together …