Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

The Media and the Diffusion of Information in Financial Markets : Evidence from Newspaper Strikes

Peress, Joël - 2013

This paper investigates the causal impact of the media in financial markets by exploiting exogenous media blackouts resulting from national newspaper strikes in several countries. Trading volume falls 14% on strike days. Stock volatility is also reduced, especially within the day, during which...

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Betting on Secession : Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2013

Abraham Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, Civil War, and abolition. Using a new database of slave sales from New Orleans, we examine the connections between political news and the prices of slaves for 1856-1861. We find that slave prices declined by roughly a third from their 1860...

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Futures commodities prices and media coverage

Almánzar, Miguel; Torero, Máximo; Grebmer, Klaus von - 2013

In this paper we examine the effects of media coverage of commodity prices increases and decreases on the price of the … commodity and how media coverage in other commodities affects prices. We provide evidence of the relationship between media … correlated with the media coverage of up movements, or increase in prices. The direction of the correlation is robust and …

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At the Top? : mediale Bilder von Personen in Spitzenpositionen der Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft

Maier, Tanja - 2013

Wissen über wissenschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Sachverhalte ist auch medial vermittelt. Nur die wenigsten Menschen haben persönliche Kontakte mit Personen, die in Spitzenpositionen von Wissenschafts- oder Wirtschaftsorganisationen tätig sind. Für große Teile der Öffentlichkeit entsteht...

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Does the market value value-added? : evidence from housing prices after a public release of school and teacher value-added

Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have adopted these methods and released the results publicly. In this paper, we study the release of value-added data in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Times newspaper to identify how...

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Elections and market provision of information

Bruns, Christian - 2013

. The model also shows that the quality of media coverage is inefficiently low because voters have incentives to free …

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Mind what your voters read : media exposure and international economic policy making

Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; Signorotto, Cora - 2013

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Citizen-editors' endogenous information acquisition and news accuracy

Sobbrio, Francesco - 2013 - This version: October, 2013

This paper provides a model of the market for news where profit-maximizing media outlets choose their editors from a population of rational citizens. The analysis identifies a novel mechanism of media bias: the bias in a media outlet's news reports is the result of the slanted endogenous...

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Elections and market provision of information : conference paper

Bruns, Christian - 2013

. The model also shows that the quality of media coverage is inefficiently low because voters have incentives to free …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340527

The news media and the expectation formation of firms : conference paper

Buchen, Teresa - 2013 - Preliminary version

Ifo survey data that explicitly measure business expectations, and data that cover the intensity and the tone of media … coverage, we come to three conclusions. First, a firm is more likely to update its business expectations when the volume of …

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