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Food Crises And The Political Economy Of The Media

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  • Swinnen, Johan F.M.
  • Francken, Nathalie

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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 originated in Belgium, and the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease which originated in the UK.

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  • Swinnen, Johan F.M. & Francken, Nathalie, 2002. "Food Crises And The Political Economy Of The Media," PRG Working Papers 31885, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:kuliwp:31885
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.31885
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    1. Besley, Timothy & Burgess, Robin, 2001. "Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(4-6), pages 629-640, May.
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    1. Johan F. M. Swinnen & Jill McCluskey & Nathalie Francken, 2005. "Food safety, the media, and the information market," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 32(s1), pages 175-188, January.

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