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...

Recent studies proposed news about future technology growth as the main driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. The identification of these news through stock prices in SVARs has been criticized in the past. Therefore, I propose a series of experiments to test that hypothesis by examining its...

There is a widespread belief that changes in expectations may be an important independent driver of economic fluctuations. The news view of business cycles offers a formalization of this perspective. In this paper we discuss mechanisms by which changes in agents' information, due to the arrival...

There is a widespread belief that changes in expectations may be an important independent driver of economic fluctuations. The news view of business cycles offers a formalization of this perspective. In this paper we discuss mechanisms by which changes in agents' information, due to the arrival...