Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli

No 15402, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with the extent to which each newspaper is a recipient of government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government’s corruption scandals by almost half of a front page per month, or 37% of a standard deviation in our measure of coverage. The results control for newspaper, month and individual corruption scandal fixed effects.

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Date: 2009-10
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