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Small Investment and Large Returns

其他書名	Terrorism, Media and the Economy
出版	SSRN, 2013
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oB7YzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This study investigates the role of the media to the impact of terrorism on the economy. A unique data set of 3045 articles published in major Israeli newspapers covering 180 terrorist attacks was used to evaluate their impact on the Tel Aviv stock market in 2002. We perform an econometric analysis of editorial decision making regarding the articles' placement and print characteristics: number of articles, front page, pictures and large headlines. We found that media coverage is the main channel by which terrorism produces economic damage: i.e., media coverage was the only explanatory variable found to be significant in the equation explaining the economic damage incurred. The economic damage caused increases monotonically with the amount media coverage. For a given terror attack, the greater its media coverage, the greater the economic damage caused. We also found that the impact of the media coverage of terrorism on the economy decreased over time.