This paper analyses textual data mined from 37,460 reviews written by mobile banking application users in Nigeria over the period November 2012 - July 2020. On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the best), the average user rating for the twenty-two apps included in our sample is 3.5; with the apps...

Direct measurement of corruption is difficult due to its hidden nature, and measuring the perceptions of corruption via survey-based methods is often used as an alternative. This paper constructs a new non-survey based perceptions index for 111 countries by applying sentiment analysis to...

This paper assess how priorities of the IMF's membership have evolved over the past two decades, by using text mining techniques on a unique dataset combining IMFC communiques and constituency statements. Our results reveal significant variation in priorities across time and constituencies....

Background: Researchers in logistics and supply chain management apply a multitude of methods. So far, however, the potential of textual data science has not been fully exploited to automatically analyze large chunks of textual data and to extract relevant insights. Methods: In this paper, we...

There is growing awareness within the economics profession of the important role narratives play in the economy. Even though empirical approaches that try to quantify economic narratives are getting increasingly popular, there is no theory or even a universally accepted definition of economic...

Das Coronavirus hat viele alte Gesetzmäßigkeiten in Frage gestellt. Das gilt auch für die Vermessung ökonomischer Aktivitäten. Verfahren aus der Hochzeit der Industrialisierung werden dem strukturellen Wandel zunächst zu einer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft, später zu einer Digitalwirtschaft...