05
NOV
2024
14:15
- 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
Measuring Local Climate Change Attention: Does it Affect Investors and Firms?
Who
Lin Peng
(City University of New York)
Where
IWH, conference room and via Zoom
We construct a novel measure of local climate change attention using a comprehensive dataset of newspaper coverage from 2000-2022, encompassing over 5,000 US newspapers. We document an increasing trend in climate attention and growing polarization in climate-related sentiment across the US.