The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

We invite researchers to submit papers or extended abstracts to the 6th Economics of Media Bias Workshop. Organized by the eponymous research network, the workshop will be a platform to discuss current research, exchange ideas, and explore new collaboration scenarios. As a group of economists...

Understanding inflation expectations is a key prerequisite for informed monetary policy decision-making. The expectations of households, firms, financial markets and other economic agents about future price developments have become a prime source for supporting the analysis of financial...

Als Gruppe von Ökonomen und Politikwissenschaftlern untersuchen wir Formen, Ursachen und Folgen von Voreingenommenheit, insbesondere auf Nachrichtenmärkten und in sozialen Medien. Die wichtigsten Fragen von Interesse sind: - Wie können Medienverzerrungen definiert und gemessen werden? - In...

Social networks are part of the public discourse and are used in a variety of disciplines. The result is ahigh variety of research questions, analytical approaches, levels of analysis, and types of data. In short: very different perspectives. Bringing these together, new ideas may develop that...

The GESIS Spring Seminar (formerly ZA Spring Seminar) offers three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists. Week 1: Fundamentals of Data Analysis with Python; Week 2: A Practical Introduction to Machine Learning in Python; Week 3:...

The Nordic Conference on Behavioural and Experimental Economics (NCBEE) is a conference series that has been created with the goal of bringing Scandinavian scholars together with scholars from other countries to promote exchange and discussions. Our conference this year wants to add an...

The Summer Institute brings together talented young researchers and renowned scientists from around the globe and aims to spark a dialogue about decision making under the real world constraints of limited time, information, or computational power. The Summer Institute offers a forum for young...

Das Buch "Public Opinion" von Walter Lippmann (1922) ist ein absoluter Klassiker der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften. Seine Warnung ist auch heute noch aktuell: Unter den Bedingungen von gesteuerten Massenmedien sei Demokratie nicht mehr möglich, da sich die Menschen kein unabhängiges...

Organized by the eponymous research network, the workshop will be a platform to discuss current research, exchange ideas, and explore new collaboration scenarios. Main questions of interest are: - How can media bias be defined and measured? - In which situations is bias driven by the supply side...