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What do voters learn from foreign news? : emulation, backlash, and public support for trade agreements

Chiang, Chun-Fang; Kuo, Jason M.; Naoi, Megumi; Liu, Jin-tan - 2020

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Language tone in financial news media and the cross-section of stock returns

Bask, Mikael; Forsberg, Lars; Östling, Andreas - 2020

Based on 58,256 news articles published in the Financial Times during a 15-year period that cover companies in the DJIA, we find that a trading strategy that longs stocks with the most negative news and shorts stocks with the least negative news is not profitable. Consistent with this result, we...

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Political Polarization in Financial News

Goldman, Eitan - 2020

Political news is known to be polarized, but standard explanations for polarization do not apply to financial news. Nevertheless, we find strong evidence of political polarization in the tone and coverage of corporate financial news. In particular, we find that the tone of corporate financial...

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Do Corporate Press Releases Drive Media Coverage?

Tsileponis, Nikolaos - 2020

financial media coverage. We find that there is a spike of media articles on the same day and one trading day following firms … increase their firms' media coverage; a firm's issuance of press releases attracts more media articles about the firm leading …, our findings suggest that media coverage decisions can be influenced by a firm …

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Media Coverage and Debt Financing

Cheng, C.S. Agnes - 2020

We examine whether media coverage influences firms' debt financing and, more importantly, the channels through which it … occurs. We find that more media coverage significantly reduces firms' reliance on bank loans while increasing their nonbank …

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News Sentiment and Financial Assets Returns during COVID-19

Maghyereh, Aktham Issa - 2020

This study is the first to document the impact of news sentiment on different classes of assets' returns (stocks, bonds, oil, natural gas, gold, commodities, and foreign exchange rate) during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using time-varying causality test, we find that the causality running from...

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COVID-19 : The Impact on News Media

Pullicino, Lourdes - 2020

The paper looks at the formidable challenges that have shaken the news media industry over the past weeks. The COVID-19 outbreak has aggravated to critical proportions the threats that have long plagued news media for the public good. Ironically, as is the case in all times of crises, this comes...

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Does Fake News Affect Voting Behaviour?

Cantarella, Michele; Fraccaroli, Nicolò; Volpe, Roberto - 2020

We study the impact of fake news on votes for populist parties in the Italian elections of 2018. Our empirical strategy exploits the presence of Italian- and German-speaking voters in the Italian region of Trentino Alto-Adige/Südtirol as an exogenous source of assignment to fake news exposure....

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High-Frequency News Sentiment and Its Application to Forex Market Prediction

Xing, Frank; Hoang, Duc Hong; Vo, Dinh-Vinh - 2020

Financial news has been identified as an important alternative information source for modeling market dynamics in recent years. While most of the attention goes to stock markets, the foreign exchange (Forex) market, in contrast, is much less studied. Most of the existing text mining research for...

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Do corporate press releases drive media coverage?

Tsileponis, Nikolaos; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos; … - In: The British accounting review : the journal of the … 52 (2020) 2, pp. 1-18

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