The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Press Freedom
研究了外国直接投资如何通过增强媒体财务和技术实力、改善经济环境来促进新闻自由，基于115个国家20年的面板数据发现FDI对自由高效的媒体至关重要。
SUMMARY In our paper we establish foreign direct investment (FDI) as a major determinant of media freedom. Global integration can strengthen the media sector financially, make it technologically enhanced and can also improve the economic environment as a whole. This, in turn, would work towards the enhancement of media freedom. The sample includes high, middle and low income economies. Using a panel of 115 countries over a period of 20 years, our results reveal that FDI is an absolute necessity for a free and efficient media. The results are robust to various alternate specifications and inclusion of additional control variables.