We analyse the impact of exposure to corruption news on individuals' perceptions about the extent of the phenomenon. To … this purpose, we take information on individuals' perceptions of the likelihood that corruption events may occur in … everyday life and combine it with a dataset containing the number of news items related to corruption that appeared on the …

hierarchies. It is the world turned upside down. Ersatz carnival is a pernicious, inverted form of carnival, one wherein counter …

Previous literature has talked extensively about the relationship between a free (independent) press and corruption. A … free press ameliorates corruption levels in a country by acting as a watchdog and making the government more transparent … information (specifically to internet services, mobile phone and television) impact corruption levels of a country. We use a …

We test the relationship between aggregate press freedom and corruption, performing a modified extreme bounds analysis … for a 10-year panel. We also test the relation among different forms of restrictions to press freedom and corruption using … lead to higher corruption levels. Furthermore, we obtain that both political and economic influences on the media are …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between corruption, human capital, and the monitoring capacities of civil … of education on corruption to depend on the capacities of civil society to oversee government officials. If those … capacities are well developed, education decreases corruption, whereas it may lead to higher corruption if civil monitoring is …

We use matching methods to explore the causal relationship between the control of corruption and press freedom from … 1996-2016. We find strong evidence that corruption reform significantly increases press freedom over both the four-year and … eight-year horizon. However, we find little evidence that reform in press freedom influences the control of corruption …

We use matching methods to explore the causal relationship between the control of corruption and press freedom from … 1996-2016. We find strong evidence that corruption reform significantly increases press freedom over both the four-year and … eight-year horizon. However, we find little evidence that reform in press freedom influences the control of corruption …