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 …

Understanding behavioral aspects of collective decision-making is an important challenge for eco-nomics, and narratives …-Role Narrative Framework as a tool to systematically analyze narratives, and applies it to study US climate change policy on Twitter … corpora using supervised machine learning. In our application to US climate change policy narratives, we find strong changes …

Individuals use narratives as rationales or justifications to make their claims more convincing. I provide a general … framework for partial verifiability based on narratives. Narratives give many reasons and arguments. The receiver derives the … sender's claims. Therefore, the receiver detects misreports with positive probability. Narratives flexibly allow for …

, we examine the use of narratives as a persuasive tool in the context of financial advice where advisors may hold … mechanisms that govern narrative persuasion. First, we show that advisors construct self-interested narratives and make them …’ beliefs about the future performance of a company. Third, we identify the types of narratives that investors find convincing …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via … word-matching methods and sentiment dictionaries. Empirically, culture narratives are more common than economy …-related narratives. Narratives related to work and entrepreneurship are particularly positive, while foreign religion and welfare …

, we examine the use of narratives as a persuasive tool in the context of financial advice where advisors may hold … mechanisms that govern narrative persuasion. First, we show that advisors construct self-interested narratives and make them …' beliefs about the future performance of a company. Third, we identify the types of narratives that investors find convincing …

We provide evidence on narratives about the macroeconomy—the stories people tell to explain macroeconomic phenomena …—in the context of a historic surge in inflation. We measure economic narratives in open-ended survey responses and represent … experts and document three main findings. First, households' narratives are strongly heterogeneous and coarser than experts …

. We further explore potential mechanisms, and the impact of different types of narratives, by analyzing self …-reported classifications of, and employing natural language processing techniques on, participants' narratives. …