This paper investigates the impact of differences in organizational culture on M&A outcomes during the transaction and post-merger integration phase. Using a state-of-the-art large language model, we construct a novel measure of organizational cultural distance based on employee reviews from...

Previous studies have shown that qualitative disclosure contains information that facilitates the assessment of future firm outcomes. We first connect to this literature on early signals by showing that qualitative disclosure also specifically contains information about future ETR as one...

It is widely accepted that episodes of social unrest, conflict, political tensions and policy uncertainty affect the economy. Nevertheless, the real-time dimension of such relationships is less studied, and it remains unclear how to incorporate them in a forecasting framework. This can be partly...

While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach...

Dieses Working Paper untersucht den Einsatz von Generative AI Anwendungen zur Prognose von Leitzinsentscheidungen der Federal Reserve. Es bewertet, ob diese Anwendungen eingesetzt werden können, um Leitzinsänderungen vorherzusagen, und vergleicht ihre Vorhersagegenauigkeit mit den...

We document the importance of local information in mass media for the political engagement of citizens and accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was suppressed—Canadians received either public or private...

This paper measures the exposure of industries and occupations to 40 digital technologies that emerged over the past decade and estimates their impact on European employment. Using a novel approach that leverages sentence transformers, we calculate exposure scores based on the semantic...

This paper introduces a novel database of text features extracted from the speeches of 53 central banks from 1996 to 2023 using state-of-the-art NLP methods. We establish four facts: (1) central banks with floating and pegged exchange rates communicate differently, and these differences are...

As a disruptive technology, blockchain has become a strategic priority for many businesses. A vast amount of research exists on blockchain's innovative nature and immense potential for multiple industries. This study aims to synthesize the existing research to classify the findings into various...