Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political …

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Can media drive the electorate? : the impact of media coverage on party affiliation and voting intentions

Dewenter, Ralf; Linder, Melissa; Thomas, Tobias - 2018

As the rise of populist and right-wing political movements is connected to extensive media coverage, the question …. To tackle this question, we investigate how media coverage affects short- and long-term political preferences, namely … business climate, unemployment, and inflation. The results show that media coverage of a political party has a positive and …

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I read the news today, oh boy : the effect of crime news coverage on crime perception and trust

Velásquez, Daniel; Medina, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2018

Crime perception has increased in Peru in recent years, as in other developing and developed countries, in spite of the reduction in crime victimization figures. Our hypothesis is that the news industry is in part responsible for such developments. Using a novel database of written news, we...

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Missing Events in Event Studies : Identifying the Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises

Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2018

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...

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Fake News and Advertising on Social Media : A Study of the Anti-Vaccination Movement

Chiou, Lesley - 2018

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...

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News Sentiment and Overshooting of Exchange Rates

Feuerriegel, Stefan - 2018

In a globalised world, the volume of international trade is based on both import and export prices, thereby making a country's economy highly dependent on exchange rates. In order to study exchange rate movements, one frequently exploits the so-called Dornbusch overshooting model. However, the...

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Berichterstattungsqualität im IFRS-Anhang : Konzeptionierung und empirische Analyse der Anhangberichterstattung über immaterielle Vermögenswerte in IFRS-Geschäftsberichten

Nell, Tobias - 2018

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[Working paper] "News on fake news - media portrayals of fake news by Japanese news media" : for the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Seoul, Korea, 24th – 27th June, 2018

Cheng, John W.; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2018

This study quantitatively examines how the term "fake news" is being portrayed by the Japanese news media using semantic network analysis. It uses newspapers as the representative as they are still one of the most influential news media in Japan. The data set consists of 624 newspaper articles...

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Grenzenloser Reichtum : Wahrnehmung, Darstellung und Bedeutung von Milliardären

Brenner, Daniel - 2018

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How to counter fake news? : a taxonomy of anti-fake news approaches

Alemanno, Alberto - 2018

Fake news is a symptom of deeper structural problems in our societies and media environments. To counter it, policymakers need to take into account the underlying, self-reinforcing mechanisms that make this old phenomenon so pervasive today. Only by taking a step back can we examine the...

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