We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …

Two aspects of media bias are important empirically. First, bias is persistent: it does not seem to disappear even when … the media is under scrutiny. Second, bias is conflicting: different people often perceive bias in the same media outlet to … be of opposite signs. We build a model in which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The …

bias arises endogenously in equilibrium. Our model relaxes assumptions commonly made in the literature that restrict the … media bias depends on the industrial organization of the market for news and the effects of government imposed fairness … standards that restrict the degree of bias of individual news sources. Our model is consistent with findings by recent empirical …

There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire … to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin, reflects the outlet …. Whereas competition can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, it actually exaggerates the incentive to spin stories …

We review the theoretical literature on market determinants of media bias. We present a theoretical framework that …