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...

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...