Economic studies on the new quality productive forces NQPF are mushrooming, however, on the whole, the majority of existing studies primarily focus on revealing and summarizing the economic laws guiding the development of NQPF based on the"general"characteristics of individual organizations at...

This paper studies how the distribution of information supply by the news media affects the macroeconomy. We document three connected facts about the media's reporting of firm news. First, media coverage is highly concentrated, focusing particularly on the largest firms in the economy. Second,...

This paper provides direct evidence of the importance of firm attention to macro-economic dynamics. We construct a text-based measure of firm attention to macro-economic news and document firm attention that is polarized and countercyclical. Differences in attention lead to asymmetric responses...

This paper provides direct evidence of the importance of firm attention to macroeconomic dynamics. We construct a text-based measure of firm attention to macroeconomic news and document firm attention that is polarized and countercyclical. Differences in attention lead to asymmetric responses to...