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<p>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.</p>
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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.

Ukraine War: What Do More Than Eight Million Tweets Say?

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Ukrainekrieg: Was sagen mehr als 8 Mio. Tweets?

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...

Ukraine War: What Do More Than Eight Million Tweets Say?

Publicado en línea: 28 jul 2023

Páginas: 500 - 502

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/wd-2023-0140

© 2023 Moritz Grebe et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.