Search Results - subject:"coverage"

Long, Ngo Van; Richardson, Martin; Stähler, Frank - 2018 - Version of February 16, 2018

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,...

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Founder CEOs and new venture media coverage

Howard, Michael D.; Kolb, Johannes - 2018

media coverage and their effect on firm performance. We employ competing risk models to analyze data on 2,327 US VC …-backed technology firms during the period 1985 to 2009, finding that founder CEOs enhance volume and positive tonality of media coverage …

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News media and crime perceptions : evidence from a natural experiment

Matrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi - 2018

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect...

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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 … value. In particular, we analyze how the electoral cycles at the regional level influence the coverage of news about … find any evidence of the existence of neither an electoral cycle, nor an ideological bias in the coverage of corruption …

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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

. Using a novel database of written news, we identify short-term deviations from the long-term trend in the coverage of crime … news at the province level and estimate the effect of news media on crime perception. We measure coverage as a function of …

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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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[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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