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Does Social Media cause Polarization? Evidence from access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate

Di Tella, Rafael; Galvez, Ramiro H.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

media status (Twitter). Our treatments mimic two strategies often suggested as a way to limit polarization on social media … study a group of non-Twitter users in order to have a simple, offline benchmark of the debate's impact on polarization …

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Perceived FOMC : The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers

Bordo, Michael D. - 2018

Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...

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Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Partisanship on Asset Prices

Bianchi, Francesco; Kung, Howard; Cram, Roberto Gómez - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

their Twitter accounts. Tweets that criticize (support) a particular company are associated with a significant negative …

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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020

event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users … Twitter text becomes on average more similar to that of the main far-right party, AfD, while the opposite happens for some of …

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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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