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Published Online: Jul 28, 2023
Page range: 500 - 502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/wd-2023-0140
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© 2023 Moritz Grebe et al., published by Sciendo
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We collect more than eight million German-language tweets on the war in Ukraine and use a machine learning approach to construct a daily index of uncertainty about the war. In an empirical model, we show that fluctuations in uncertainty have strong effects on financial markets and real economic activity in Germany.