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If you are a researcher in the broad area of textual analysis, there is a new Special Issue just opened in International Review of Economics and Finance https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-review-of-economics-and-finance on "New Directions in Text Analysis in Finance and Economics". Guest editors are Michael Dowling of DCU Business School and Cormac Bryce of Bayes Business School. Closing date is 1/12/22.
The special issue is on text analysis in international finance and economics, with a particular emphasis on such issues as topic modelling (both applications in economics and finance and comparison of applications across the now rapidly growing methodological tools for the same), new Baker-Bloom style indices and developments/improvements on same, readability and document structure and how it impacts on corporate or securities pricing and placement, non-English language textual analysis and how this interplays and interacts with global asset and economic markets, textual analysis of video/audio transcripts of economic and financial broadcasts and recordings, dictionary construction and applications, text analysis of financial messy data etc. Intending authors are welcome to contact the Guest Editors or the Editors in Chief (Brian Lucey or Arman Eshraghi) for an informal discussion if they are unsure of the suitability of their topic for possible inclusion.