The major issue which we address in this paper is the one-size-fits-all nature of the typical city-level house price index. In this vein, we make two contributions. First, we develop a new algorithm to ensure feasible estimation of geographically granular repeat-sales house price indices in...

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...

In this paper, I develop an Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) measure for Colombia based on news coverage, as the one presented in Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2016). This index is the result of the analysis of 10, 113 news articles from the period between January 1994 and December 2016. Additional...

The paper develops a financial systemic stress index (FSSI) for Greece. We present a methodology for constructing and evaluating a systemic stress index which: i) adopts the suggestion of Hollo et al. (2012) [Hollo, Kremer, and Duca (2012) “CISS – A ‘Composite Indicator of Systemic...

The big bang of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has caused the birth of a brand new era for digital art. NFTs, driven by blockchain and smart contracts, provide both artists and art collectors an unprece- dented marketplace equipped with more security, flexibility, publicity, and freedom to monetize....

In a moment where humans produce an overwhelming quantity of information and are able to numerically analyze it, we propose to test whether markets are able to incorporate such amounts of information to prices. We transform four million news into a news index that has explanatory power over...