This paper studies the behavior of newsstand prices for The Economist magazine in eight markets. Substantial variations in markups across markets are related to exchange rate fluctuations. Some of this variation can be traced to menu costs. However, much of the variation appears to result from...

This paper investigates the effect of media-talk on financial markets in response to COVID-19 news published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Collecting data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC), we investigate the effect of WSJ's coverage and stress...

Hundreds of studies have shown that air pollution affects health in the very short-run. This played a key role in setting air quality standards. Yet, estimated effect sizes can vary widely across studies. Analyzing the results published in epidemiology and economics, we find that publication...

"The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism provides a complete and critical survey of the field of business and economic journalism. Beginning by exploring crucial questions of the moment, the volume goes on to address such topics as: the history of the field, differentiation among business...

"Closely examining how the news media reports economic and financial matters, this book equips students with solid methodological skills for reading and interpreting the news alongside a toolkit for best practice as an economic journalist. How to Read Economic News combines theory and practice...

Export firms are often assumed to stabilize destination market prices in the face of nominal exchange rate changes in order to protect market share. We show that standard tests of such pricing to market fail to discriminate against the alternative hypothesis of menu costs. As a case study, we...

Zitate spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Beurteilung der Qualität von Artikeln und Zeitschriften sowie der Leistungen von Forschern. Das Zitierverhalten in der Wissenschaft ist jedoch sehr unterschiedlich in den verschiedenen Disziplinen. So erhalten zum Beispiel Artikel in der Physik...

The financial press is a conduit for popular narratives that reflect collective memory about historical events. Some collective memories relate to major stock market crashes, and investors may rely on associated narratives, or "crash narratives," to inform current beliefs and choices. Using...

"This book is the result of a research process of long durée. Entirely original material rubs shoulders with other work that has already seen the light of day in the form of previous versions of articles and chapters in books, normally in languages other than English. Some of the earlier...

The 15 columns document and analyze the principal forestry-related processes and events in Guyana during the final three-years in office (2011-2015) of the ethnic East Indian-dominated government that ruled uninterruptedly for 22 years (1992-2015). The evidence and consequences for the forests,...

I examine the acceptance time (i.e., the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to final-round acceptance) and the online/print publication times (i.e., the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to online/print publication) of...

An analysis of covariance with a 4 x 3 factorial design was used to compare the citation means of 560 articles published in 28 pedagogy journals. The independent variables were four business fields: accounting, economics and finance, general management, and marketing; three levels of external...

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preliminary Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Merchants' Handbooks (1699-1759): Educate, Inform, Reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Pérez de Moya to Corachán -- 3 From Corachán to Bordázar -- 4 The...

The Australian Federal Government launched its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative in February 2008. As part of the ERA exercise, the Australian Research Council (ARC), the peak research body in Australia, uses ranking of journals as a main indicator to assess research quality....

In principle, neither the global environment nor personal health should come down to gambling. In practice, however, both the law of global biodiversity protection and the constitutional debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) rest on astoundingly risk-seeking...

The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of "Business - Finance"...

This paper describes a flexible way to unify the many disparate citation-based journal ranking metrics commonly used to assess the relative merit of academic business journals. The guiding principle for the proposed approach is the simple and intuitively appealing idea that a journal in a given...

Das Handelsblatt-Ranking BWL erschien 2012 zum zweiten Mal und wurde von über 300 Wissenschaftlern boykottiert. Nach Vorstellung des Rankings und der wichtigsten Argumente für den Boykott werden wesentliche Diskussionsbeiträge zu dem Ranking und Boykott präsentiert und kommentiert. Dabei...