When Does Bad News Stick? Topic-Level Asymmetry in Narrative Dynamics -- by Isha Agarwal, Wentong Chen, Eswar S. Prasad

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Citation and Citation DataCopy Citation Isha Agarwal, Wentong Chen, and Eswar S. Prasad, "When Does Bad News Stick? Topic-Level Asymmetry in Narrative Dynamics," NBER Working Paper 35838 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35838. Copy to Clipboard Download Citation

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