Chinese anti-corruption campaigns executed by CCDI (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) put politicians under high scrutiny. We employ CCDI's inspections as the event and use counterfactual analysis to show that corporations in inspected provinces significantly suppress negative...

Media censorship is prevalent in autocratic regimes, but little is known about how and why censorship might vary within a country. I collect close to 40,000 articles from Chinese newspapers about officials caught during Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign, which is campaign widely publicised...