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Credeph's avatar

Amazing work and powerful findings! Congratulations for the mention in the FT as well.

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M Alam's avatar

It is not surprising to me that a rise in gas prices above 3.5 (which is probably near the expected price to pay for gas at the national level over most of this period) gets attention - I bet the authors will get the same type of kink if they focus on shorter (but not too short - like 5 years+) chunks of the data and look how the kink behaves around the national 5-year average gas price.

Regardless, the lack of coverage of positive news is quite interesting. Is the Fox news kink more pronounced when a Democrat is in the office? How about MSNBC when a Republican is in the office? Would be super interesting to know.

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