Partisan bias in economic news: Evidence on the agenda-setting behavior of U.S. newspapers

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1178-1189

  Larcinese, Valentino ^a   Puglisi, Riccardo ^b   Snyder, James M ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Mass media; Media bias; News

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955179583     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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