. Banks are not unaffected by this, as they face many future challenges and are thus directly affected by narratives. For this … about the future of the banks. The paper presents contributions that make explicit statements about the future of banks …, either a description of the future or an assessment of the future prospects of banks. Two databases were searched in this …

Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals …

Research about narratives’ role in economics is scarce, while real word experience and research in other sciences … suggest they matter a lot. This article proposes a view and methodology for quantifying the epidemiology of media narratives … relevant to business cycles in the US, Japan, and Europe. We do so by first constructing quantitative measures of narratives …

Narratives pervade almost any aspect of our life and play a particularly important role in moral and prosocial decision …) narratives influence prosocial behavior. Our main findings are that positive narratives increase giving substantially, especially … for selfish types, compared to a baseline with no narratives. Negative narratives, on the other hand, have a differential …

This article quantifies the epidemiology of media narratives relevant to business cycles in the US, Japan, and Europe … writes about. At a broad level, the most in fluential news narratives are shown to be associated with general macroeconomic … developments, finance, and (geo-)politics. However, a large set of narratives contributes to our index estimates across time …

persuasion. Our results reveal several insights. First, narratives are persuasive: We find that they systematically shift beliefs … anticipated by narrative-senders, who systematically tailor their narratives to the facts. Fourth, the features of a competing …