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| Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Francken, Nathalie. |
| The objective of our paper is to contribute to this understanding by presenting a conceptual model of the information supply and comparing it with empirical observations on media reporting on two recent food safety crises. Our paper starts with an analysis of the organization and incentives of the media industry, looking at both supply and demand factors, and discusses a set of general hypothesis on the characteristics of information provided by the media industry. This section relies heavily upon a formal model of the information market developed in Swinnen and McCluskey (2002). The second part of the paper is empirical. We compare the hypotheses with media reporting on two recent food safety crises in Western Europe: the 1999 dioxin crisis which... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31885 |
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| Francken, Nathalie; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| This paper investigates the role of the media in reducing corruption. We analyze data on personal capture of public education expenditures by local officials in Madagascar. We find that corruption can be successfully constrained through a combination of media programs and monitoring. More transparent funding mechanisms and access to mass media reduce capture. However, the impact of the media is conditional on the characteristics of the population. With high illiteracy in poor regions, the effectiveness of newspaper and poster campaigns is limited, and radio programs are more important to reduce capture. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31872 |
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