This paper reviews the empirical evidence on commercial media bias (i.e., advertisers influence over media accuracy … three main policy insights for media regulators: i) Media regulators should target their monitoring efforts towards news …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias …

We examine whether media coverage influences firms' debt financing and, more importantly, the channels through which it … occurs. We find that more media coverage significantly reduces firms' reliance on bank loans while increasing their nonbank … the media complements other information sources, and among firms with a higher demand for external monitoring, suggesting …

This paper analyzes a two-sided market for news where advertisers may pay a media outlet to conceal negative …) higher is the accuracy of the media outlet' reports. Moreover, when advertisers' products are correlated, a higher degree of … competition in the market of the advertisers' products may decrease the accuracy of the media outlet's reports. …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on commercial media bias (i.e., advertisers influence over media accuracy … three main policy insights for media regulators: i) Media regulators should target their monitoring efforts towards news …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias. …

s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services are concerned, and analyses some of the most … relevant policy papers specifically related to the adoption of the EC legal framework for the media in the digital age, before … focusing on the preparatory phase leading up to the adoption of the Commission proposal for a Directive on Audiovisual Media …

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relation between a target firm’s media coverage (measured by … degree of media coverage, positive and negative media coverage) and various takeover characteristics. We find that media … coverage is negatively associated with the takeover premium. This holds for both positive and negative media coverage. Thus, no …