Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing
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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant is accompanied by qualitative slant; newspapers repor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.09.001