Abstract
AbstractThe uncertainty in the financial market, whether US—China trade war will slow down global economy or not, Federal Reserve Board (FRB) policy to increase the interest rates, or other similar macroeconomic events can have a crucial impact on the purchase or sale of financial assets.In this study, we aim to build a model for measuring the macroeconomic uncertainty based on the news text. Further, we proposed an extended topic model which uses not only news text data but also numeric data as a supervised signal for each news article. Subsequently, we used our proposed model to construct four macroeconomic uncertainty indices. All these indices were similar to those observed in the historical macroeconomic events, and the correlation was higher with the volatility of the market index with respect to the uncertainty index.KeywordsUncertaintyEconomic policyTopic modelText mining
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