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Hans Byström

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Happiness and Gold Prices

Författare

  • Hans Byström

Summary, in English

We use the Twitter-based Hedonometer happiness index to study the link between happiness and gold price changes. We find no significant correlation between the two when we look at correlations across the entire distributions. However, turning to an extreme value theory (EVT) modeling of the tails of the non-normally distributed happiness distribution we find that during particularly depressing days the gold price often goes up. In a sense, gold is found to serve as a happiness-related safe haven, i.e. as a hedge against extreme unhappiness.

Avdelning/ar

  • Nationalekonomiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2020

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Working Papers

Avvikelse

2020:1

Dokumenttyp

Working paper

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • Twitter
  • happiness
  • Hedonometer
  • gold price
  • tail
  • extreme value theory
  • D83
  • G14
  • G41
  • G50

Aktiv

Published