Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

A Friendly Turn : Advertising Bias in the News Media

Focke, Florens - 2016

This paper investigates whether newspapers report more favorably about advertising corporate clients than about other firms. Our identification strategy based on high-dimensional fixed effects and high frequency advertising data shows that advertising leads to more positive press coverage. This...

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News Sentiment and Cross-Country Fluctuations

Fraiberger, Samuel P. - 2016

What is the information content of news-based measures of sentiment? How are they related to economic fluctuations? I construct a sentiment index by measuring the net amount of positive expressions in the full corpus of Economic news articles produced by Reuters covering 12 countries over the...

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Media Coverage and Investors’ Attention to Earnings Announcements

Peress, Joel - 2016

announcements with media coverage generate a stronger price and trading volume reaction at the time of the announcement and less …Does investors' inattention contribute to the post-earnings announcement drift? I study this question using media … coverage as a proxy for attention. I compare announcements made by the same firm in the same year and generating the same …

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Commonality in News Around the World

Dang, Tung Lam - 2016

Motivated by the pioneering study of Morck, Yeung, and Yu (2000), this paper investigates whether and how news commonality varies according to a country's institutional environments. Using a unique global news data set across 41 countries for the 2000-2009 period, we document three notable...

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News Sentiment and Measures of Bank Credit Risk

Smales, Lee A. - 2016

This article seeks to consider the relationship between the sentiment of newswire messages for a set of major international banks and changes in two important credit measures; the LIBOR-OIS spread and the CDS spread. There is a significant and negative relationship between news sentiment and...

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Rumor Has It : Sensationalism in Financial Media

Ahern, Kenneth R. - 2016

The media has an incentive to publish sensational news. We study how this incentive affects the accuracy of media … coverage in the context of merger rumors. Using a novel dataset, we find that accuracy is predicted by a journalist …

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Media Coverage of Central Bank Communications and Stock Market Reactions

Al-Rjoub, Samer A. M. - 2016

We examine how media coverage's of Central Bank communications impact Jordanian stock market returns using both EWMA … Alyoam).EWMA results over thirteen yeas period show with no doubt that media coverage of CBJ communication in the three days … response to the media coverage of local news papers of a T-Bills issuance announcement by The CBJ. While the overall stock …

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Ending the Mending Wall : Herding, Media Coverage, and Co-Location in IT Entrepreneurship

Greenwood, Brad N. - 2016

non-local IT entrepreneurs does occur. In this work, we investigate how trends in the form of herding and media coverage …

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Diversified Programming in Broadcasting Markets : News vs. Entertainment

Ihara, Saori - 2016

This paper examines how increases in broadcast channels affect equilibrium in broadcasting markets and social surplus. In our model, viewers have preferences for many potential varieties of news and entertainment programs. Our model explains different market phenomena: the previous limited...

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Negative Media Coverage of the Supreme Court : The Interactive Role of Opinion Language, Coalition Size, and Ideological Signals

Denison, Alex - 2016

When does the media use negative language to cover the Supreme Court, and what are the political consequences of this portrayal? We offer a novel consideration of how judicial behavior influences coverage of the Court. Examining over 1,000 news articles from 29 diverse outlets covering rulings...

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