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Corporate governance in the private sector and corruption are important for economic development and private sector development. This paper investigates how corporate governance in private-sector media companies can affect public corruption. The analytical framework, based on models of corporate governance, identifies two channels through which media ownership concentration affects corruption: an owner effect, which discourages corruption and a competition-for-control effect that enhances it. When the ownership structure of a newspaper has a majority shareholder, the first effect dominates and corruption decreases as ownership becomes more concentrated in the hands of majority shareholders. Without majority shareholders, the competition-for-control effect dominates and corruption increases with the concentration of ownership of the media company. Thus, the paper shows that cases of intermediate media-ownership concentration are the worst at promoting public accountability, while extreme situations, where the ownership is completely concentrated or widely held, can result in similar and lower levels of corruption.

Accountability --- Bribe --- Bribes --- Collusion --- Company --- Corporate governance --- Corporate Law --- Corrupt --- Corruption --- Debt Markets --- Democracy --- Economic Theory & Research --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Government officials --- Law and Development --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Majority shareholder --- Majority shareholders --- Media --- Monopoly --- Ownership concentration --- Ownership structure --- Politician --- Politicians --- Private Sector Development --- Privatization --- Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Development --- Stolen public funds

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This book comprises 19 papers published in the Special Issue entitled “Corporate Finance”, focused on capital structure (Kedzior et al., 2020; Ntoung et al., 2020; Vintilă et al., 2019), dividend policy (Dragotă and Delcea, 2019; Pinto and Rastogi, 2019) and open-market share repurchase announcements (Ding et al., 2020), risk management (Chen et al., 2020; Nguyen Thanh, 2019; Štefko et al., 2020), financial reporting (Fossung et al., 2020), corporate brand and innovation (Barros et al., 2020; Błach et al., 2020), and corporate governance (Aluchna and Kuszewski, 2020; Dragotă et al.,2020; Gruszczyński, 2020; Kjærland et al., 2020; Koji et al., 2020; Lukason and Camacho-Miñano, 2020; Rashid Khan et al., 2020). It covers a broad range of companies worldwide (Cameroon, China, Estonia, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, United States, Vietnam), as well as various industries (heat supply, high-tech, manufacturing).

Economics, finance, business & management --- cash holding ratio --- firm's efficiency --- threshold regression model --- non-financial companies --- Vietnam stock exchange market --- dividend policy --- emerging market --- industrial sectors --- NSE India --- panel data --- financial structure --- regression analysis --- agent-based models --- decision-making --- systematically making bad decisions --- investors' behavior --- simulation --- capital structure --- family firms --- leverage --- non-family firms --- risk --- pension incentive --- currency hedging --- multinational companies --- firm value --- CEO turnover --- foreign CEO --- female CEO --- ownership structure --- Romania --- brand interrelationships --- corporate identity --- brand reputation --- higher education --- students' perceptions --- corporate governance --- ownership concentration --- agency cost --- firm performance --- dynamic panel model --- perception --- OHADA accounting --- transition --- IFRS --- comparability --- open market share repurchase --- hubris --- cumulative announcement returns --- endowed --- SMEs financing --- financing gap --- innovative activity --- innovation --- capital structure decisions --- bankruptcy --- data envelopment analysis --- logit --- model --- family firm --- non-family firm --- corporate performance --- Japan --- board of directors --- women in corporations --- financial microeconometrics --- multiple regression --- quantile regression --- diff-in-diff --- New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) --- internal and external innovativeness --- intangibility --- information disclosure --- timeliness of financial reporting --- law violation --- private firms --- corporate governance best practice --- corporate governance compliance --- company value --- Warsaw Stock Exchange --- accrual earnings management --- Nordic model --- cash holding ratio --- firm's efficiency --- threshold regression model --- non-financial companies --- Vietnam stock exchange market --- dividend policy --- emerging market --- industrial sectors --- NSE India --- panel data --- financial structure --- regression analysis --- agent-based models --- decision-making --- systematically making bad decisions --- investors' behavior --- simulation --- capital structure --- family firms --- leverage --- non-family firms --- risk --- pension incentive --- currency hedging --- multinational companies --- firm value --- CEO turnover --- foreign CEO --- female CEO --- ownership structure --- Romania --- brand interrelationships --- corporate identity --- brand reputation --- higher education --- students' perceptions --- corporate governance --- ownership concentration --- agency cost --- firm performance --- dynamic panel model --- perception --- OHADA accounting --- transition --- IFRS --- comparability --- open market share repurchase --- hubris --- cumulative announcement returns --- endowed --- SMEs financing --- financing gap --- innovative activity --- innovation --- capital structure decisions --- bankruptcy --- data envelopment analysis --- logit --- model --- family firm --- non-family firm --- corporate performance --- Japan --- board of directors --- women in corporations --- financial microeconometrics --- multiple regression --- quantile regression --- diff-in-diff --- New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) --- internal and external innovativeness --- intangibility --- information disclosure --- timeliness of financial reporting --- law violation --- private firms --- corporate governance best practice --- corporate governance compliance --- company value --- Warsaw Stock Exchange --- accrual earnings management --- Nordic model