Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals

Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, vol. 3, issue 4, 119-51

Abstract: We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable—a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption scandals of 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18 percent of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper Χ president and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects, as well as newspaper Χ president specific time trends. (JEL D72, K42, L82, M37, O17)

JEL-codes: D72 K42 L82 M37 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.3.4.119
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