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| Author: | Brunetti, A. Weder, B. |
| Title: | A free press is bad news for corruption |
| Journal: | Journal of Public Economics
2003 : AUG, VOL. 87:7-8, p. 1801-1824 |
| Index terms: | Corruption |
| Freeterms: | Press freedom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors test the proposition that a free press may be a powerful control on corruption. They find evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries. This result is robust to specification and sample and the relationship is not sensitive to the choice of a particular measure of corruption or of press freedom. They present also evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corruption. |
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