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Cross-Border Portfolio Flows and News Media Coverage

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020

This paper investigates the dynamic linkages between portfolio flows and various news indices (based on both "positive" and "negative" news headlines collected from Bloomberg), whilst also controlling for a comprehensive set of push and pull factors. The monthly panel examined comprises 49...

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News Media vs. FRED-MD for Macroeconomic Forecasting

Ellingsen, Jon; Larsen, Vegard; Thorsrud, Leif Anders - 2021

contains information not captured by the hard economic indicators, and that the news-based data are particularly informative …

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Breaking Monetary Policy News : The Role of Mass Media Coverage of ECB Announcements for Public Inflation Expectations

Hirsch, Patrick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

Using the variation in national television news of four major member states in the Eurozone, we find causal effects of coverage of high-frequency identified monetary policy announcements on households’ inflation expectations in an event study and a generalized Difference-in-Differences...

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Bad Science : Retractions and Media Coverage

Alabrese, Eleonora - 2023

Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...

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The Null Result Penalty

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022

We examine how the evaluation of research studies in economics depends on whether a study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with significant results, even when holding...

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Fraud Concerns and Support for Economic Relief Programs

Haaland, Ingar K.; Olden, Andreas - 2022

program designed to save jobs and prevent bankruptcies. The information treatment significantly reduces support for the …

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The Social Value of Predicting Hurricanes

Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - 2022

contribution is to develop a new theoretically-grounded approach for estimating the marginal value of information and we apply it … to establish the social value of improving hurricane forecasts. On the margin, the value of hurricane information is …

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Transparency and Policy Competition: Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians

Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023

misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

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Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Chopra, Felix; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2023

How do households adjust their spending behavior in response to changes in home price expectations? We conduct a field experiment with a sample of Americans that links survey data on home price expectations to actual spending behaviour as measured in a rich home-scanner dataset. In the...

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The Politics of Public Service Reform: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron; Sandholtz, Wayne - 2023

This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...

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