News Based Sentiment Indicators

Download or read book News-based Sentiment Indicators written by Chengyu Huang and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We construct sentiment indices for 20 countries from 1980 to 2019. Relying on computational text analysis, we capture specific language like “fear”, “risk”, “hedging”, “opinion”, and, “crisis”, as well as “positive” and “negative” sentiments, in news articles from the Financial Times. We assess the performance of our sentiment indices as “news-based” early warning indicators (EWIs) for financial crises. We find that sentiment indices spike and/or trend up ahead of financial crises.