Quantifying the semantics of search behavior before stock market moves

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 11600-11605

  Curme, Chester ^a,b   Preis, Tobias ^b   Stanley, H Eugene ^a   Moat, Helen Susannah ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Computational social science; Data science; Financial markets; Online data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84905986134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1324054111     Document Type: Article

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