A sentiment-based risk indicator for the Mexican financial sector

We apply sentiment analysis to Twitter messages in Spanish to build a sentiment risk index for the financial sector in Mexico. We classify a sample of tweets from 2006-2019 to identify messages in response to a positive or negative shock to the Mexican financial sector, relative to merely informativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raul Fernandez, Brenda Palma Guizar, Caterina Rho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Central Banking
Subjects:
G1
G21
G41
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666143821000168