Position: Professor

Contact Details

• Tel: 46-(0)8-16 43 76
• Fax: 46-(0)8-16 14 43
• Email: david.stromberg@iies.su.se
• Room number: A754

Publications
Current Working Papers
CV

Publications

• Media Bias in China (with Bei Qin and Yanhui Wu),
  American Economic Review, fortchoming.
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• Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda (with Bei Qin and Yanhui Wu),
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31.1 (2017): 117-140.
  
  
• Media Coverage and Political Accountability:
  Theory and Evidence
   Handbook of Media Economics,
  (Anderson, Strömberg and Waldfogel, eds.). Elsevier, 2016.
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• Media and Politics
  Annual Review of Economics, 7, 2015.
  
  
• The Judge, the Politician and the Press
  (with Claire Lim and James Snyder).
  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7(4).  2015.

• The Political Economy of Mass Media (with Andrea Prat).  Advances in Economics and Econometrics. Cambridge University Press. 2013.

• Press Coverage and Political Accountability (with James Snyder) Journal of Political Economy 118(2), 2010.

• How the Electoral College Influences Campaigns and Policy:
  The Probability of Being Florida,
  American Economic Review, 98(3), 2008.

• Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(3), 2007.

• News Floods, News Droughts, and U.S. Disaster Relief,
  (with Thomas Eisensee),
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2), 2007.
  Working paper version (2007).
  Daily news pressure 1968-2003 (stata format)
  Daily news pressure 1968-2018 (stata format)

• Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy, Review of Economic Studies, 71(1), 2004.
  Dissertation version (1999).

• Radio's Impact on Public Spending,
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(1), 2004..
  Dissertation version (1999).
  TV-impact version (2001).

• Distributing News and Political Influence, 
  in, The Media’s Right to Tell, edited by Simeon Djankov and Caralee McLiesh for the World Bank, 2002.

• Mass media and public policy,
  European Economic Review 45, 2001, 652-663..

Current Working Papers

(The following papers can be viewed or downloaded in Acrobat format.)

• Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda (with Bei Qin and Yanhui Wu), CEPR Discussion paper, DP11778.
  
• The Determinants of Media Bias in China
  (with Bei Qin and Yanhui Wu).
  
• Weather and Infant Mortality
  (with Masa Kudamatsu and Torsten Persson).

• "Commercial Television and Voter Information"
  

  (with Andrea Prat).

• Demography, Voting, and Local Public Expenditures. Theory and Evidence from Swedish Municipalities, Princeton university.

Teaching

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