(Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment Webinar

Wharton Finance Professor Jules van Binsbergen presents his paper, (Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment, which uses the full text of 200 million pages of 13,000 U.S. local newspapers and state-of-the-art machine learning methods to construct a novel 170-year-long time series measure of economic sentiment.
This webinar was hosted by Wharton's Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research and the Wharton Club of the United Kingdom.