Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

Prediction markets, twitter and bigotgate

Vaughan Williams, Leighton; Reade, J. James - 2014

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Automated detection of financial events in news text

Hogenboom, Frederik Pieter - 2014

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News media sentiment and investor behavior

Kräussl, Roman; Mirgorodskaya, Elizaveta - 2014

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News dissemination and investor attention

Boulland, Romain; Degeorge, François; Ginglinger, Edith - 2014

We examine how investor attention changes when a firm adopts a modern news dissemination technology. We find that after continental European firms begin using an English-language electronic wire service to disseminate company news, they exhibit a stronger initial reaction to earnings surprises,...

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Media Coverage and Firm Valuation : Evidence from China

Wang, Jiwei - 2014

, favorable media coverage of the controlling shareholders does not enhance firm value. Further analyses reveal that ownership … structure and audit quality moderate the relationship between media coverage and firm valuation. Our study complements the …Drawing on both a managerial-discipline perspective and an information-intermediary perspective, we explore how media …

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Self-Monitoring or Reliance on Media Reporting : How Do Financial Market Participants Process Central Bank News?

Hayo, Bernd - 2014

estimations reveal that the perceived reliability of media coverage is negatively associated with degree of self-monitoring and …

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Media Coverage of Terror : Troubling Episodes and Suggested Guidelines

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael - 2014

During the past 40 years there have been many instances in which media coverage of terrorist events was problematic and … learned, indicating the need to develop a set of guidelines for responsible media coverage of terror. One might think that in …

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Bias in Cable News : Persuasion and Polarization

Martin, Gregory J. - 2014

We measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news, exploiting cable channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable news viewership. Channel positions do not correlate with demographics that predict viewership and voting, nor with local satellite viewership. We...

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Revealing Malfeasance : How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico

Larreguy, Horacio A. - 2014

We estimate the effect of local media outlets on political accountability in Mexico, focusing on malfeasance by municipal mayors. We study federal grants earmarked for infrastructure projects targeting the poor, and leverage two sources of plausibly exogenous variation. First, we exploit...

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Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2014

Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews by media outlets owned by News Corp.--such as the Wall Street Journal--and by Time...

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