Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased?
By John R. Lott, K. Hassett. Public Choice, 2014
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Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Quantifying Political Leaning from Tweets and Retweets (2013, background): “For example, (Lott and Hassett 2004) linked the sentiment of newspaper headlines to economic indicators.”
- The impact of macroeconomic news on Bitcoin returns (2020, unknown): “To determine the net effect of the economic news, we follow the methodology of Lott and Hassett [2014] in constructing a news index.”
- Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, unknown): “A large literature in political science (e.g., Iyengar et al., 2012; Mason, 2013; Lott and Hassett, 2014; Mason, 2015; Gentzkow, 2016; Boxell et al. 2017) documents an increase in political polarization over time, with political parties becoming increasingly homogeneous in the ideology of their memb”
- When does the stock market listen to economic news? New evidence from copulas and news wires (2014, unknown): “…to find any significant relationship between GDP announcements and the stock market in the past, Birz and Lott (2011) document substantial market reaction to output-related news using a more comprehensive news measure based on the classification of newspaper headlines of Lott and Hassett (2004).”