This note summarizes recent trends in institutional affiliation of authors who publish in three leading general interest journals, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. The statistics show that well over fourty percent of the pages published...

We propose the visual attention hypothesis, that visuals in firm earnings announcements increase attention to the earnings news. We find that visuals in firm Twitter earnings announcements are associated with more retweets, consistent with greater follower engagement with announcements with...