Beattie, Graham; Durante, Ruben, 1978-; Knight, Brian; Sen, Ananya(INFORMS, 2020)
Do mass media bias content in favor of advertisers? If so, what market conditions limit or exacerbate this bias? We examine the relationship between advertising by auto manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage ...
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first
chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment
created by a ban on the politically ...
Do politicians tend to adopt unpopular policies when the media and the public are distracted by other events? We examine this question by analyzing the timing of the signing of executive orders (EOs) by U.S. presidents ...
Do politicians tend to adopt unpopular policies when the media and the public are distracted by other events? We examine this question by analyzing the timing of executive orders signed by U.S. presidents over the past ...
Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major European newspapers. We find ...
