A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...

This paper investigates the causal impact of the media in financial markets by exploiting exogenous media blackouts resulting from national newspaper strikes in several countries. Trading volume falls 14% on strike days. Stock volatility is also reduced, especially within the day, during which...

A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...

This paper investigates the causal impact of the media in financial markets by exploiting exogenous media blackouts resulting from national newspaper strikes in several countries. Trading volume falls 14% on strike days. Stock volatility is also reduced, especially within the day, during which...