Newspapers named Danatbank’s Jewish-linked manager but not rivals’ equivalents.

Evidence

Panel B shows the number of mentions of Goldschmidt (Danatbank’s leading manager), Nathan and Goetz (of Dresdner Bank), and Wassermann (of Deutsche Bank) in connotation with their respective banks over the same time period. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 236

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly operationalizes the reader’s key identification claim: press salience attached to a specific named (Jewish) banker at Danat rather than to Dresdner. — connects to: The study measures Danatbank exposure through firm connections and branch presence. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 79
  • QUESTION: Are the Goldschmidt mentions measured net of routine business coverage, i.e. negative-toned crisis mentions only?