Meinusch, Annette; Tillmann, Peter - 2015
Easing ("tapering") impact asset prices. To quantify beliefs of market participants, we use data from Twitter, the social … media application. Our data set covers the entire Twitter volume on Federal Reserve tapering in 2013. Based on the time … series of beliefs about an early or late tapering, we estimate a VAR model with appropriate sign restrictions on the impulse …