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Our research measures emotions in US newspapers related to economic policy. The motivation of the study is to examine whether emotion decomposition provides information beyond conventional news-based uncertainty measures and sentiment indices, and could improve financial-market monitoring and forecasting. After emotion identification, we construct an emotion-related (sentiment) index and examine its impact on EPU, VIX, SP 500, and USD using the BVAR model. Preliminary results show that increases in negative emotions lead to persistent increases in the Economic Policy Uncertainty index and the VIX. In contrast, their effects on S&P 500 and US dollar returns are smaller, negative, and largely transitory. Positive-emotion shocks produce weaker and less precisely estimated responses.

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Subhasish Modak Chowdhury is a Professor at the University of Sheffield where he serves as the Director of the BRAINS research centre, and lead the Behavioural Economics Research Group. He is a microeconomist with research interests in contest theory, behavioral economics, industrial organization etc. Recently he joined the Journal of Competition Law & Economics as an Associate Editor.

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Tommaso Roccabianca is a PhD Candidate in Public Governance, Management and Policy at the Department of Management, University of Bologna, and a collaborator at IRCCS Sant'Orsola University Hospital since 2024. His research focuses on the adoption and implementation of technological innovations in healthcare organizations, with particular attention to robotic surgery, operating room management, and the organizational changes associated with the introduction of new technologies.

Ro'i Zultan is a professor at the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the director of the Negev Experimental Economics Laboratory. He is an experimental economist with a background in cognitive and experimental psychology. His research focuses on understanding how group dynamics influence cognition and behavior, as well as on broader questions of cooperation, coordination, and decision-making in teams. He is also interested in game theory, market efficiency, ethics, and the methodological foundations of experimental research.

Deborah Nováková is the Head of the Academic Skills Center at CERGE-EI, where she has been teaching since August 2012. She has gained professional experience at the University of Birmingham, Maastricht University, and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Canada. Her presentation will focus on the core skills needed for effective academic writing and presentations in today’s academic environment, highlighting common mistakes and offering practical guidance, particularly relevant for Ph.D. students and junior faculty members.