Text mining reveals new links between economic and political uncertainty
Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller and Carlos Sanz use text mining to quantify economic policy uncertainty in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Can machine learning help policymakers detect conflict?
Hannes Mueller and Christopher Rauh present a new method of predicting conflict through news topics which are generated automatically from a topic model.
How to measure conflict?
If 1000 people were killed in conflict India, a country with a population of more than 1.2 billion inhabitants, would this have the same impact on the country as a whole as 1000 victims in Nicaragua, a country of 6 million inhabitants? The intuitive answer might be no, but this is exactly what most of the conflict literature is doing. Hannes Mueller makes a case for rethinking the approach of using a threshold of an absolute number of battle victims.
