We construct a new newspaper-based sentiment indicator for Spain that allows us to monitor Spanish economic activity in real-time. As opposed to the traditional survey-based confidence indicators that are released at the end of the month, our indicator can be constructed on a daily basis and...

Traffic fatalities have been identified as an important public health issue, and human factors have been shown to be a significant contributor to road crashes. Previous research has confirmed the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and dangerous driving behaviors. However, most of...

We adopt a machine learning-based algorithm to identify direct and indirect company mentions in newspaper articles. We identify the importance of properly matching text segments to their respective companies when estimating human-perceived newspaper sentiment. Previous research has developed...

Principled capitalism has been proposed as a replacement for liberal capitalism. Moral principles should be driving our individual and collective decisions rather than utility and profit. A new unit called an oblig is suggested as a measure of the amount of the substance of the "stuff" that...