Web search queries can predict stock market volumes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bordino, Ilaria ^a   Battiston, Stefano ^b   Caldarelli, Guido ^c,d,e   Cristelli, Matthieu ^c   Ukkonen, Antti ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d London Institute for Mathematical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^e IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; SEARCH ENGINE; WEB BROWSER;

INTERNET; INVESTMENTS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84864135851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040014     Document Type: Article

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