{"id":7208,"date":"2023-12-06T23:51:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T23:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2023-12-06T23:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T23:51:44","slug":"forecasting-inflation-from-twitter-to-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/?p=7208","title":{"rendered":"Forecasting inflation: from twitter to mass media"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wonderplugin-pdf-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/wp-content\/plugins\/wonderplugin-pdf-embed\/pdfjslight\/web\/viewer.html?v=2&file=https:\/\/aaep.org.ar\/works\/works2023\/15.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600px\" style=\"border:0;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use mass media news to generate a set of quantitative indexes related to the inflation rate in Argentina for the period 2017-2023. 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