Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

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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Media attention and crude oil volatility : is there any 'new' news in the newspaper?

Aromi, D.; Clements, Adam - 2018

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When Less is More : Experimental Evidence on Information Delivery During India's Demonetization

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2018

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...

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Coverage news and companies' stock abnormal returns

Alves, Carlos; Nogueira, Ana Luísa - 2018

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The digital transformation of news media and the rise of disinformation and fake news

Martens, Bertin; Aguiar, Luis; Gomez-Herrera, Estrella; … - 2018

This report contains an overview of the relevant economic research literature on the digital transformation of news markets and the impact on the quality of news. It compares various definitions of fake news, including false news and other types of disinformation and finds that there is no...

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Where Do People Get Their News?

Kennedy, Patrick J. - 2018

The media industry is unique in its ability to spread information that may influence the democraticprocess. This influence depends on where and how citizens get their political information. While previous research has examined news production and consumption on specific media platforms—such as...

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Crash Beliefs from Investor Surveys

Goetzmann, William N. - 2018

Historical data suggest that the base rate for a severe, single-day stock market crash is relatively low. Surveys of individual and institutional investors, conducted regularly over a 26-year period in the United States, show that they assess the probability to be much higher. We examine factors...

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Media Coverage of Corporate Taxes

Chen, Shannon - 2018

Managers express growing concern over media coverage of corporate taxes, yet no large-sample empirical study examines … their tax avoidance following media coverage. Although our analyses are subject to limitations, our results suggest the …

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Manipulated News Model : Electoral Competition and Mass Media

Miura, Shintaro - 2018

by mass media, and self-mediatization, the strategic exploitation of media coverage by candidates, in elections. In the … by influencing the media coverage through policy settings (indirect distortion). As a result, policy convergence to the …

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Who Reacts to News?

Chichernea, Doina - 2018

We show that the positive relation between firm-level cash-flow news and institutional ownership documented by Cohen (2002) is mostly driven by short-horizon investors. Short-term institutions trade to incorporate cash-flow related information into prices and potentially reduce under-reaction to...

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