A contribution to the empirics of press freedom and corruption

Sebastian Freille; M. Emranul Haque; Richard Kneller

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2007.03.002

A contribution to the empirics of press freedom and corruption

Sebastian Freille, M. Emranul Haque, Richard Kneller

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Abstract

We test the relationship between aggregate press freedom and corruption performing a modified extreme bounds analysis. We also test the relation among different forms of restrictions to press freedom using previously unexplored disaggregated data. Our results support the theoretical view that restrictions to press freedom leads to higher corruption. Furthermore, we obtain that both political and economic influences on the media are strongly and robustly related to corruption, while detrimental laws and regulations influencing the media are not. In all cases the evidence indicates, although not conclusively, that the direction of causation runs from a freer press to lower corruption. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	838-862
Number of pages	24
Journal	European Journal of Political Economy
Volume	23
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2007.03.002
Publication status	Published - Dec 2007

Keywords

Bureaucratic corruption
Extreme bounds analysis
Press freedom

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A contribution to the empirics of press freedom and corruption

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