Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

Social Media, News Media and the Stock Market

Jiao, Peiran; Veiga, André; Walther, Ansgar - 2020

We study the effect on stock volatility and turnover of coverage by traditional news media and social media. We find that coverage by traditional news media predicts decreases in subsequent volatility and turnover, but coverage by social media predicts increases in volatility and turnover. These...

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Impact of Smartphone News Apps on Print Media – A Twin TAM Framework

N., Dr. Elangovan - 2020

News magazine being an important part of the print Media industry has so far been affected by World Wide Web and currently by the Smartphone Apps. They have just entered the industry with great promises and potential. Research focusing on the impact of news apps on the news magazines will...

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Mood Swings, Media Coverage, and Elections

Ghosh, Saptarshi - 2020

Can public mood swings that make all voters undergo an ideological shift towards a policy, hurt the electoral performance of that policy? The answer depends interestingly on the operations of an apolitical, viewership-maximizing dominant media. The media chooses news quality about fundamental...

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Spending Less After (Seemingly) Bad News

Garmaise, Mark J. - 2020

Using high-frequency spending data, we show that household consumption displays excess sensitivity to salient macro-economic news, even when the news is not real. When the announced local unemployment rate reaches a 12-month maximum, local news coverage of unemployment increases and local...

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Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice : Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel

Ash, Elliott - 2020

Exposure to conservative news causes judges to impose harsher criminal sentences. Our evidence comes from an instrumental variables analysis, where randomness in television channel positioning across localities induces exogenous variation in exposure to Fox News Channel. These treatment data on...

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On the Interplay among Information Intermediaries : How Does Analyst Coverage Affect Media Coverage?

Guest, Nicholas M. - 2020

We use exogenous decreases in analyst coverage to examine how firm-specific analyst coverage affects media coverage … decrease affected firms' media coverage. The effect is concentrated among firms with fewer analysts, firms that lose all … the mechanism through which analyst coverage affects media coverage. Taken together, our results suggest exogenous …

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News as Sources of Jumps in Stock Returns : Evidence From 21 Million News Articles for 9000 Companies

Jeon, Yoontae - 2020

A potential important source of jumps in stock returns can be material news events. In this paper, we collect 21 million news articles associated with more than 9000 publicly-traded companies and use textual analysis to derive measures summarizing those news. We find that measures of news flow...

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Fake News in Financial Markets

Kogan, Shimon - 2020

We study fake news in financial markets using a novel dataset from an undercover SEC investigation. Our setting measures both the direct and indirect effects of market manipulation. Fake articles directly induce abnormal trading activity and increase price volatility, but in addition, the...

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Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics

Barrera Rodriguez, Oscar - 2020

How effective is fact checking in countervailing "alternative facts,'' i.e., misleading statements by politicians? In a randomized online experiment during the 2017 French presidential election campaign, we subjected subgroups of 2480 French voters to alternative facts by the extreme-right...

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COVID-19 Sentiment and Chinese Stock Market : Official Media News and Sina Weibo

Duan, Yuejiao - 2020

We quantitatively measure the Chinese stock market's reaction to the COVID-19 sentiments. Using 6.3 million textual data from both Official News media and Sina Weibo, we develop two COVID-19 sentiment indexes which capture the moods related to COVID-19. Our sentiments are real-time...

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