The Cheerleader of The United States
(2018) NEKN01 20181Department of Economics
- Abstract
- How does Donald Trump’s passionate Twitter usage impact consumer confidence? This paper develops a new time series measure of Donald Trump’s Twitter based on a sentiment analysis using data from June 2016 to March 2018. Furthermore, we capture the economic sentiment based on computational text analysis using economic news articles from January 2000 to March 2018, assuming that Trump acts as an extension to traditional newspapers. Using these never deployed time series we are able to investigate how Trump can affect the Consumer Confidence Index in the United States, both on a national and regional level. This paper finds that Donald Trump has the ability to affect consumer confidence through his usage of Twitter. Observing stronger effects... (More)
- How does Donald Trump’s passionate Twitter usage impact consumer confidence? This paper develops a new time series measure of Donald Trump’s Twitter based on a sentiment analysis using data from June 2016 to March 2018. Furthermore, we capture the economic sentiment based on computational text analysis using economic news articles from January 2000 to March 2018, assuming that Trump acts as an extension to traditional newspapers. Using these never deployed time series we are able to investigate how Trump can affect the Consumer Confidence Index in the United States, both on a national and regional level. This paper finds that Donald Trump has the ability to affect consumer confidence through his usage of Twitter. Observing stronger effects in regions that consist of mainly Republican constituents. (Less)
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- author
- Ghorbani, Tom LU and Stridsberg Usterud, Oliver LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- The Effect of President Trump’s Twitter on Consumer Confidence in the United States
- course
- NEKN01 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Donald Trump, Consumer Confidence, Twitter, Sentiment, Text Analysis
- language
- English
- id
- 8946382
- date added to LUP
- 2021-04-26 09:06:23
- date last changed
- 2021-04-26 09:06:23
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