Essays about: "News shock"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words News shock.

1. 1. “Are you in the mafia?” : Ethnic discrimination on the American labor market

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

   Author : Anes Velic; [2023]
   Keywords : Employment gap; earnings gap; ethnic discrimination; exogenous shocks to ethnic discrimination on the labor market; employers’ prejudice;

   Abstract : How did the Italian mafia affect honest Italian descendants on the American labor market? This is a study about how an exogenous shock to ethnic discrimination on the labor market affected a whole ethnic group. The goal with this study is to analyze how a massacre by Al Capone’s crew in 1929 affected Italian workers on the American labor market. READ MORE

3. 2. Media portrayal of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

   Author : Hanna Bendes; Julia Mardell; [2022]
   Keywords : media portrayal; ethical journalism; visual rhetorics; refugees; news value criterias; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Newspapers and media have always played a critical role in society and have come to shape the way we reflect and perceive news and societal issues. Journalists are conveyer of a message and act as a moderator to shape and set the agenda for the public opinion and the public discourse. READ MORE

4. 3. Price Shocks and Investor Irrationality

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Fredrika Bruu; Emma Åkerstén; [2020]
   Keywords : Overreactions; Underreactions; Stock Market Reactions; Price Shocks; Contrarian Strategy;

   Abstract : This paper replicates the research conducted by Benou and Richie (2003) on overreactions among investors to news or events causing large price changes to occur in the stock market. While the original study focuses solely on large price decreases among well-established firms listed in the S&P 100 index on the U.S. READ MORE

5. 4. Does Bad News Affect Trade?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Proma Paromita Chowdhury; [2020]
   Keywords : consumer boycott; Rana Plaza; Google trends; Gravity model; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The research paper analyses the impact of negative news, in terms of shock, on the binary trading relationship of Bangladesh with the rest of the world using the readymade garment industrial catastrophe of Rana Plaza collapse of 2013. To assess the geographical distribution of negative news, the per capita volume of search index from Google Trends is treated as the key variable. READ MORE

6. 5. analysing ISIL`s propaganda

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

   Author : jamil walli; [2015]
   Keywords : ISIL; Globalization; propaganda; religious; perceptible; psychic; aura; awe; shock; projection; alienation; adversary; caliphate; radical; glocal; semiotics; CDA;

   Abstract : The emergence of “the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant” was surprising not only because of its rapid expansion geographically across Syria and Iraq, but also because of its global influence. That`s represented in its magnetic power through gravitating large numbers of Muslim youth, from almost all around the world. READ MORE