This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more … of media and democracy on the government's preventive effort before the disaster are negative. We provide empirical …

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more … of media and democracy on the government's preventive effort before the disaster are negative. We provide empirical …

before the disaster, however, media and democracy both have a negative e ffect, as does corruption. We provide empirical … action, the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are, and corruption that reduces the efficacy … disaster, although corruption has a negative e ffect that decreases as media activity increases. On the preventive e ffort …

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This paper tries to explain why government bureaucraties are often associated with red tape, corruption and lack of … and corruption. …

-scale hand-coded media data for the automotive industry, we show that news about companies is systematically more positive in … companies' home countries than abroad. Home-country media slant increases during bad times for companies, and it correlates …. Abnormally high home-media news tone predicts low monthly domestic stock returns. The effects are strongest for confirmatory news …

There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire …'s attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases …

paper reviews the relationships between the quality of information supplied by mass media, the competition in information … information-selection process and companies’ rent-seeking activities. Media can be captured by government through financing and …