Author(s):
Sazedj, Sharmin 
Date: 2010
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9857
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Stock market; Public speeches; Hope; Change
Document details
Hope, change, and the financial markets: Can Obama's public speeches drive the ...
Description
A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics Barack Obama arose as President of the United States of America during a financial crisis, that has harmed everyone. While he talked of hope and change, the media praised his rhetoric. This paper proposes a methodology based on word occurrence and manual content analysis to analyse whether his public speeches drive the financial markets. The econometric evidence suggests that even though his speeches per se do not have an impact on the markets, some of his specific oratorical features do. This impact is visible both on contemporaneous daily returns and on cumulative (three days and seven days) returns.
A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics Barack Obama arose as President of the United States of America during a financial crisis, that has harmed everyone. While he talked of hope and change, the media praised his rhetoric. This paper proposes a methodology based on word occurrence and manual content analysis to analyse whether his public speeches drive the financial markets. The econometric evidence suggests that even though his speeches per se do not have an impact on the markets, some of his specific oratorical features do. This impact is visible both on contemporaneous daily returns and on cumulative (three days and seven days) returns.
Document Type
Master Thesis
Language English
Advisor(s) Tavares, José
Language English
Advisor(s) Tavares, José
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