Identificador persistente para citar o vincular este elemento: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/117878
Título: Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions
Autores/as: Jiménez González, Juan Luis 
Perdiguero, Jordi
Gutiérrez, Inmaculada
Clasificación UNESCO: 5309 Organización industrial y políticas gubernamentales
Palabras clave: Antitrust
Deterrence Effect
Listed Firms
News
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Publicación seriada: International Review of Law and Economics 
Resumen: One of the main goals of competition authorities is to deter anticompetitive practices. That is one of the reasons why antitrust decisions are made public: to reinforce the deterrence effect, as the impact of the mass media on public opinion may affect firms’ reputations. Our empirical strategy focuses on identifying how the nature of specific antitrust actions by competition authorities affects the size of news items and their visibility within the newspaper. We study this relationship by using a new database containing all news published in Spain over a 30-month period, regarding all cases analysed by the Spanish competition authority. Our analysis produced two key conclusions about how the media deals with positive and negative news on the reputation of listed and non-listed companies. On average, the difference in size between positive and negative news for listed firms is greater than the difference present in the actions referring to non-listed firms. Secondly, newspapers concede greater visibility to them by positioning more favourably, both on the right-hand side of the paper and on initial pages. These results suggest that the deterrence effect that competition authorities seek by making their decisions public may be weakened by the presence of bias in media.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/117878
ISSN: 0144-8188
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2022.106085
Fuente: International Review of Law and Economics [ISSN 0144-8188], v. 72, (Diciembre 2022)
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