Can news help measure economic sentiment? An application in COVID-19 times

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2021.109730MaRDI QIDQ2659967zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pablo Aguilar, Corinna Ghirelli, Matías Pacce, Alberto Urtasun

Publication date 29 March 2021

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109730

zbMATH Keywords

real-timenowcastingGDPrecessiontextual analysissentiment indicatorssoft indicators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Economic growth models (91B62)

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