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| Title: | | Nowcasting private consumption with TV sentiment  |
| Authors: | | Uhl, Matthias W. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOF working papers // KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich 293 |
| Abstract: | | We perform principal components analyses of the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment and TV sentiment in order to gain information on their structure and information content. By introducing the new sentiment variable TV sentiment, gathered from sentiment from statements from over 10,000 TV news broadcasts in the United States, we find that TV sentiment adds great value in nowcasting private consumption. We further find that TV sentiment performs markedly better than the Index of Consumer Sentiment, suggesting that using sentiment from TV news has more explanatory power than survey-based sentiment. |
| Subjects: | | TV sentiment consumer sentiment private consumption |
| JEL: | | D12 E21 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-006804308 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOF Working Papers, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich
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