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American Partisan Media Consumption and Voting Persuasion Attempts : How 24-Hour Cable News Incites Political Proselytizing

Platzman, Paul - 2017

Since the emergence of partisan cable news networks (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) in the mid-1990s, the way many Americans get their political information has changed. Previous research has examined the associations between cable news viewership and individuals' political knowledge, attitudes, and...

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Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail : An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage

García Jimeno, Camilo - 2017

We study the strategic interaction between the media and Senate candidates during elections. While the media is instrumental for candidates to communicate with voters, candidates and media outlets have conflicting preferences over the contents of the reporting. In competitive electoral...

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Tarifkonflikte in den Medien : was prägt die Berichterstattung über Arbeitskämpfe? : eine Studie der Otto Brenner Stiftung

Viehmann, Christina; Jost, Pablo B. - 2017

Warum erlangen manche Tarifauseinandersetzungen hohe öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, während andere kaum mediale Beachtung finden? Wieso stehen manche Tarifkonflikte in einem günstigeren Licht, während andere eher Ablehnung erfahren? In der OBS-Studie werden neun Tarifkonflikte untersucht und...

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Fake News

Grunewald, Andreas - 2017

In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...

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Sector News Sentiment Indices

Borovkova, Svetlana - 2017

We present the sector-based news sentiment indices, which track, for a given industry or sector, the current media sentiment about this sector. The sentiment index for a particular sector has a natural relationship to the basket of stocks of publicly traded companies operating in this sector or...

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Media Coverage and Food Commodities : Agricultural Futures Prices and Volatility Effects

Almánzar, Miguel - 2017

We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their … coverage on the price of these four commodities; these effects are mostly concentrated in 2012 and from 2015 onwards, meaning … concentrated in soybeans and maize. We find robust evidence that media coverage decreases volatility for these agricultural …

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Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased?

Lott, John R.; Hassett, Kevin A. - 2017

American newspapers tend to give more positive news coverage to the same economic news when Democrats are in the White House … Times during the Reagan administration. Contrary to rational expectations, media coverage affects people’s perceptions of …

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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage

Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks … health coverage and improve financial protection in the last two decades. The country study, first, takes stock of UHC … progress in Vietnam, examining both the breadth and the depth of health coverage and assessing financial protection and equity …

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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge

Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are …

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The Production, Distribution, and Performance of Physicians, Nurses, and Midwives in Indonesia: An Update

Anderson, Ian; Meliala, Andreasta; Marzoeki, Puti; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

aims to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2019. Achieving UHC means not only increasing the number of people …

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