Shutterstock May 9, 2018 Your Spotify history could help predict what’s going on with the economy Kim Kaivanto, Lancaster University and Peng Zhang, Guizhou Minzu University The emotions associated with trends in popular music and lyrics can predict economic sentiment.
Business heads in the retail sector are optimistic about the future, but they also scored high in opinion rather than evidence based language. Dan Himbretchs/AAP March 8, 2017 Face Value: sentiment analysis shows business leaders are positive about the year ahead Ross Guest, Griffith University and Ben Hachey, University of Sydney Face Value analyses the sentiment of business leaders in ASX top 100 companies and for 2017 it seems positive, although sometimes highly opinionated.
Stories can have a profound effect on our behaviour. Shutterstock February 3, 2017 How storytelling drives finance and economics Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of Queensland History shows us that narratives play an important role in market behaviour. But new research shows that all it takes is a simple story that matches our preconceived notions.