Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring … obtain votes. A media scandal exposing these candidates entices them to increase their coercion effort to offset the negative … a media scandal. We find that paramilitary-backed candidates exposed before elections get as many votes as those exposed …

This paper outlines the modern industrial organization theory of media markets including competition policy …-based business models and data-driven markets is summarized in a detailed way and illustrated by modern media examples. …

This paper studies how media and the quality of institutions aff ect government action taken before and after a natural … disaster. The key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government … of government action. Provided that more media activity is focused on post-disaster government action, we show that more …

It has been well-documented that beliefs and actions can be affected by media coverage. In this paper, I investigate a …

An increasing stream of literature about the role of the media in finance has been developed in recent years. The … analysis of soft information, including newspaper articles and other media-generated content. This paper aims at putting … forward knowledge about the media's role in finance, leveraging on a large variety of research from the field of finance …

Can media affect religious behavior? We study the effect of a drastic change in media landscape on religious … mainstream public and private media outlets had a similar moderately-liberal slant. In 2015, a right-wing populist party Law and … Justice (PiS) came to power and took control of the editorial policy of public media, introducing a substantial conservative …

The role of media – whether television, newspapers, radio, or the Internet – in supplying the ideas that shape our … recognized. Ownership patterns affect not only pluralism, but also how well the media industry is able to manage its resources … around which configurations and what level of ownership of media ought to be permissible are a site for conflicting …

This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more …