A commonly-used platform to assess the tone of business documents in the extant accounting and finance literature is Diction. We argue that Diction is inappropriate for gauging the tone of financial disclosures. About 83% of the Diction optimistic words and 70% of the Diction pessimistic words...

The article presents an example of a text analysis and interpretation based on a qualitative research. In the first part we focus on the theoretical definition of analytical tools and characteristics of the text analysis and interpretation within the frame of qualitative research. We continue...

Although often applied in other social sciences, text mining has been less frequently used in economics and in policy circles, particularly inside central banks. This Handbook is a brief introduction to the field, discussing how text mining is useful for addressing research topics of interest to...

Network theory is a widely used approach for characterizing the interaction between the components of complex systems. However, dealing with social, cultural and socio-ecological complex systems is challenging in their own particular ways. Interactions in such systems cannot be characterized...

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are still generating opposing views ranging from being a fraud to being the source of a new economy. Those differences are stemming from confusion, bias and vested interest. This paper is an attempt to generate an unbiased, unified market definition to fill a...