Search Results - subject:"coverage"

Engelberg, Joseph - 2017

Using a sample of 97 stock return anomalies, we find that anomaly returns are 50% higher on corporate news days and are 6 times higher on earnings announcement days. These results could be explained by dynamic risk, mispricing via biased expectations, and data mining. We develop and conduct...

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Fifty Years of Fat : News Coverage of Trends that Predate Obesity Prevalence

Davis, Brennan - 2017

Background Obesity prevalence has risen in fifty years. While people generally expect media mentions of health risks like obesity prevalence to follow health risk trends, food consumption trends may precede obesity prevalence trends. Therefore, this research investigates whether media mentions...

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News Coverage of Donald Trump's First 100 Days

Patterson, Thomas E. - 2017

“The press is your enemy,” said the president. “Enemies. Understand that? ... Because they're trying to stick the knife right in our groin.” Donald Trump's ongoing feud with the media is not the first time a president has felt wronged by the press. The opening words are those of Richard...

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The Political Slant of Web Portal News and the Implications Relating to the Fake News Phenomenon

Choi, Dongook - 2017

Korean version is available at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=3035799' https://ssrn.com/abstract=3035799The argument that the news selection of Korean web portals is politically biased lacks not only objective evidence but also discourse on what the causes are. If web portals provide a sufficient...

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Framing Arab Refugees in Global News

Elsamni, Abdulrahman - 2017

responsibility frame to be the most salient and frequent frame in the coverage of Arab refugees and asylum seekers. The … frames— human interest, conflict, economic consequences, and morality; although the five frames were existent in coverage …. That is, the news coverage of Arab refugees tended to be thematic, as it covered the issue in the broader context, whereas …

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News Media and Investor Sentiment over the Long Run

Hanna, Alan - 2017

This paper studies the effect of investor sentiment on the London stock market on a daily basis over the period 1899 to 2010. We use a broad mix of reporting from the Financial Times as our proxy for investor sentiment. The main contribution of this paper is threefold. First, newspaper...

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Media Competition, Information Provision and Political Participation : Evidence from French Local Newspapers and Elections, 1944-2014

Cagé, Julia - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of increased media competition on the quantity and quality of news provided and, ultimately, on political participation. Drawing upon existing literature on vertical product differentiation, I explore the conditions under which an increase in the number of...

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The impact of aggregators on internet news consumption

Athey, Susan; Mobius, Markus; Pal, Jeno - 2017

A policy debate centers around the question whether news aggregators such as Google News decrease or increase traffic to online news sites. One side of the debate, typically espoused by publishers, views aggregators as substitutes for traditional news consumption because aggregators' landing...

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Impact of inequality-related media coverage on the concerns of the citizens

Diermeier, Matthias; Goecke, Henry; Niehues, Judith; … - 2017

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Polls, the press, and political participation : the effects of anticipated election closeness on voter turnout

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide; Funk, Patricia; … - 2017

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