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Ukrainekrieg: Was sagen mehr als 8 Mio. Tweets?

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Jul 28, 2023

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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.