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Partisan Bias in Economic News : Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers
Larcinese, Valentino - 2007
We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465272
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Who Benefits Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets?
George, Lisa - 2000
daily newspapers in the US. We find that, in their capacity as newspaper consumers, members of each group benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470792
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The Adoption of Offset Presses in the Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States
Genesove, David - 1999
This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was … the adoption was determined, at least in part, at the firm rather than the newspaper level, although, on the whole …, newspaper chains adopted neither earlier nor later than non-chain newspapers. Ceteris paribus, adoption occurred more quickly in …
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Content Aggregation by Platforms : The Case of the News Media
Chiou, Lesley - 2015
The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. Policymakers are concerned that these new platforms threaten incentives for the production of original content. As a result, policymakers are contemplating regulations that would force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457264
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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership
Ewens, Michael; Gupta, Arpit; Howell, Sabrina T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and lower chances of newspaper exit. However, the composition of news shifts away from local governance, the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938712
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Using Digitized Newspapers to Refine Historical Measures : The Case of the Boll Weevil
Ferrara, Andreas; Ha, Joung Yeob; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure which can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938777
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What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?
Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine next-day newspaper accounts of large daily jumps in 16 national stock markets to assess their proximate …
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Business News and Business Cycles
Bybee, Leland; Kelly, Bryan T.; Manela, Asaf; Xiu, Dacheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text of 800,000 Wall Street Journal articles for 1984-2017, we estimate a topic model that summarizes business news into interpretable topical themes and quantifies the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660022
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The Structure of Economic News
Bybee, Leland - 2020
We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text content of 800,000 Wall Street Journal articles for 1984{2017, we estimate a topic model that summarizes business news as easily interpretable topical themes and quantifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479172
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Policy News and Stock Market Volatility
Baker, Scott R. - 2019
We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479671