Laura Sénécal

Séminaires internes
phd seminar

Laura Sénécal

AMSE
Political sentiment and the pricing of sovereign debt: the case of Italy
Co-écrit avec
Rémi Vivès
Lieu

IBD Salle 16

Îlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 16

AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille

Date(s)
Mardi 16 avril 2019| 12:30 - 13:15
Contact(s)

Océane Piétri : oceane.pietri[at]univ-amu.fr
Morgan Raux : morgan.raux[at]univ-amu.fr
Laura Sénécal : laura.senecal[at]univ-amu.fr

Résumé

In this paper, we investigate the link between political sentiment and sovereign bond spreads. In order to proxy political sentiment, we extract public sentiment about the Italian government from Twitter data from January 2010 to December 2017. We compute sentiment based on the tonality of the tweets using a dictionary-based approach. We find that positive changes in public sentiment about Italy’s government predict decreases in the Italian sovereign spreads. We also show that this sentiment is linked to emotions such as fear and trust.