More Than Words: Quantifying Language to Measure Firms' Fundamentals

Journal of Finance

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1437-1467

  Tetlock, Paul C ^a   Saar Tsechansky, Maytal ^a   Macskassy, Sofus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Fetch Technologies Inc   (United States)

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EID: 43649107307     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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