Are editors’ choices of front page news based on the potential complementarities between the news items? This paper studies front page choices made by editors of major newspapers in the US. I document that newspapers front pages are biased to certain combinations of news on top of biased to...

Over the last four decades, Americans have consistently told pollsters that they favor higher taxes on business and the wealthy, even as tax policy has moved sharply in the other direction. Political scientists and political commentators regularly assume that elected officials respond to the...

How may configurations of content which are exposed to users as a result of an ‘algorithmic gut feeling’ on the Facebook News Feed challenge dominating epistemologies of news? The article suggests a genealogical-inspired framework to study news distinguishing between journalistic, user and...

The right of sovereign countries to protect themselves in times of crisis by resorting to otherwise unavailable measures has been “a bedrock feature of the international legal system”. Accordingly, the WTO system contains national security exceptions, on the basis of which Members may...

I employ a classification of headlines from newspapers and wire services to examine whether stalemacroeconomic news affects stock prices. Unlike with individual stocks, the cost of obtaininginformation about major economic releases is relatively low. Thus, stock prices should adjust toeconomic...

Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other...

Online sources sometimes publish information that is false or intentionally misleading. We study the role of social networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false...

How should policymakers disseminate information: by broadcasting it widely (e.g., via mass media), or letting word spread from a small number of initially informed “seed” individuals? While conventional wisdom suggests delivering information more widely is better, we show theoretically and...

We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for one provider or the other and value real news. However,...

This study underscores the implication of news media literacy (NML) on news personalization and news engagement in online environment. Borrowing Mihailidis's model of media literacy in the context of news media, it examines how different components of NML predict individual's news curation, news...