More Ads, More Revs? Is there a Media Bias in the Likelihood to be Reviewed?

This note analyzes the existence of a possible media bias by determining the impact of automobile manufactures' advertisements on the probability that German car magazines review their products. By accounting for possible endogeneity, we find a positive impact of advertising volumes on test probability.

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