Credit ratings convey credit risk information to participants in financial markets, including investors, issuers, intermediaries and regulators. This paper proposes an automatic text analysis system for financial news and analyzes the effects of news coverage and sentiment factors on credit ratings. Our experiment results show that firms with higher news coverage received worse ratings in the n...

Our study investigates the role of infrastructures in shaping online news usage by contrasting use patterns of two social groups—millennials and boomers—that are specifically located in news infrastructures. Typically based on self-reported data, popular press and academics tend to highlight the generational gap in news usage and link it to divergence in values and preferences of the two age co...

background: in spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. as a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in iran is critical. accordingly, in this study neighborhood environment walkability scale (news) was adapted...

information dissemination throughout the society is carried out by a phenomenon called news. this phenomenon is in relation to various social institutions as well as different aspects of people’s lives. in the present article, the writers believe that, firstly, the phenomenon of news, despite the operations carried out to disseminate and present it, has material value and that its economic valu...

Depending on the market strength and structure, it is a known fact that there is a correlation between the stock market values and the content in newspapers. The correlation increases in weak and speculative markets, while they never get reduced to zero in the strongest markets. This research focuses on the correlation between the economic news published in a highly circulating newspaper in Tur...