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Media capture by banks
Durante, Ruben; Fabiani, Andrea; Laeven, Luc; Peydró, … - 2022
Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...
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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641575
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Terrorism and the media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409821
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916217
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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350349
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Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012
technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …-enhancing potential. -- migration ; international trade ; capital movements ; capital formation ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663906
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Global business cycles : convergence or decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor);  … - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … of countries but divergence (or decoupling) between them. -- Globalization ; business cycles ; macroeconomic fluctuations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693703
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national … contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Information and crime perceptions : evidence from a natural experiment
Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444757