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Does High Frequency Social Media Data Improve Forecasts of Low Frequency Consumer Confidence Measures?
Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019
, we use a deep learning algorithm to measure sentiment within Twitter messages on an hourly basis and introduce a new … forecasting exercise for the consumer confidence index with both traditional econometric strategies and machine learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858409
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Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?
Guiso, Luigi - 2016
We document that individuals who grew up in areas with high density of firms are more likely, as adults, to become entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same individuals are also more likely to be successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002773
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Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption : Evidence from Movie Sales
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
social learning in which the consumption decisions of individuals depend on information they receive from their peers. The … pieces of evidence are consistent with social learning. First, sales of movies with positive surprise and negative surprise …, social learning appears to be an important determinant of sales in the movie industry, accounting for 38% of sales for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772457
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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008
We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772369
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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Kaplan, Greg - 2014
accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054868
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Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal
Yermack, David - 2013
A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely fails to satisfy these criteria. Bitcoin has achieved only scant consumer transaction volume, with an average well below one daily transaction for the few merchants who accept it....
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The Geographic Spread of Covid-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally had more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of the end of March. These relationships hold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837185
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Measuring Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2017
We introduce a new measure of social connectedness between U.S. county-pairs, as well as between U.S. counties and foreign countries. Our measure, which we call the "Social Connectedness Index" (SCI), is based on the number of friendship links on Facebook, the world's largest online social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951350
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What Can We Learn from Euro-Dollar Tweets?
Gholampour, Vahid - 2017
We use 633 days of tweets about the Euro/dollar exchange rate to determine their information content and the profitability of trading based on Twitter Sentiment. We develop a detailed lexicon used by FX traders to translate verbal tweets into positive, negative and neutral opinions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959375
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Fake News and Advertising on Social Media : A Study of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Chiou, Lesley - 2018
Online sources sometimes publish information that is false or intentionally misleading. We study the role of social networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908469