quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in …

years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers …

Abstract:Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak,and may even … coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal thatexposes these candidates increases their coercion effort to offset the negative … direct test of the effects of media exposure, we compare tainted candidates exposed before elections to those exposed after …

This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of … 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to increases in concentration in two different types of media markets - in …-state media markets and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media markets, out-of-state markets focus on neighboring …

Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring … obtain votes. A media scandal that exposes these candidates increases their coercion effort to offset the negative popularity … effects of media exposure, we compare tainted candidates exposed before elections to those exposed after. We find that those …

This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of … 1980 to 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to increases in concentration in two different types of media markets: in …-state media markets and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media markets, out-of-state markets focus on neighboring …