Im Zentrum der Kommunikationswissenschaft stehen Medienwirkungen, im Zentrum der Volkswirtschaftslehre steht die Konjunktur. Medienwirkungen im thematischen Kontext der Konjunktur hat die Kommunikationswissenschaft aber noch kaum untersucht, so wie die Rolle der Medien im gesamtwirtschaftlichen...

This paper investigates whether information complementarities can explain the strong patterns of sectoral comovement observed empirically. It tests the theoretical model by Veldkamp and Wolfers (2007), which suggests that firms' output decisions are based on aggregate information rather than...

We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogenous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...

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...