Understanding behavioral aspects of collective decision-making remains a core challenge in economics. Political narratives can be seen as a key communication technology that shapes and affects human decisions beyond pure information transmission. The effectiveness of narratives can be driven as...

The spread of propaganda and misinformation from autocratic regimes is a growing concern in democracies. We study the European Union's ban on Russian state-backed news outlets after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, analyzing 677,780 tweets from 146,633 users with a difference-in-differences design...

The effectiveness of political narratives as a communication technology depends on their virality and on the persuasiveness of single narrative exposure. To analyze narratives empirically, we introduce the political narrative framework and a pipeline for its measurement using large language...

The effectiveness of political narratives as a communication technology depends on their virality and on the persuasiveness of single narrative exposure. To analyze narratives empirically, we introduce the political narrative framework and a pipeline for its measurement using large language...

The spread of propaganda and misinformation from autocratic regimes is a growing concern in democracies. We study the European Union's ban on Russian state-backed news outlets after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, analyzing 677,780 tweets from 146,633 users with a difference-in-differences design...

The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is a growing concern in many democracies. Can censorship be an effective tool to curb the spread of such slanted narratives? In this paper, we study the European Union's ban on...