Min(d)ing the President: A text analytic approach to measuring tax news
挖掘总统言论:测量税收新闻的文本分析方法
Economic agents react to signals about future tax policy changes. Consequently, estimating their macroeconomic effects requires identification of such signals. We propose a novel text analytic approach for transforming textual information into an economically meaningful time series. Using this method, we create a tax news measure from all publicly available post-war communications of U.S. presidents. Our measure predicts the direction and size of future tax changes and…