Were government bond risk premia affected by the media in addition to the effects of major events? Revisiting the European debt crisis, we analyze the role of television news in the rise and re-convergence of GIIPS bond spreads vis-à-vis Germany from 2007 to 2016. We use a dataset of more than...

Die Forderung nach mehr gesellschaftlicher Wertschätzung der Landwirtschaft hat innerhalb, aber auch außerhalb der Branche in den vergangenen Jahren wiederholt öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Der folgende Beitrag untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß wertschätzende Kommunikation im...

The proliferation of fake news poses a growing global threat, affecting politics, individual decision-making, and economic outcomes. This column discusses how informing individuals about their susceptibility to fake news affects their willingness to pay to protect themselves from misinformation....

This study provides an analysis of the current landscape of public news media financing within EU Member States. The study maps public funding and financing measures supporting news media, provides an analysis of financing trends and identifies needs in the current information ecosystem. At an...

We build a model of the news market where advertisers allocate their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by transferring revenues from social media to news websites already introduced in...