@article{0e51d9d91b0a4727bff442542cb0bd0d,
title = "Min(d)ing the President: A Text Analytic Approach to Measuring Tax News",
abstract = "Economic agents react to signals about future tax policy changes. Consequently, estimating their macroeconomic effects requires identification of such signals. We propose a novel text analytic approach for transforming textual information into an economically meaningful time series. Using this method, we create a tax news measure from all publicly available postwar communications of US presidents. Our measure predicts the direction and size of future tax changes and contains signals not present in previously considered (narrative) measures of tax changes. We investigate the effects of tax news and find that, for long anticipation horizons, pre-implementation effects lead initially to contractions in output.",
author = "Lenard Lieb and Adam Jassem and Almeida, {Rui Jorge} and Nalan Bast{\"u}rk and Stephan Smeekes",
note = "Data source: Lieb, Lenard, Jassem, Adam , Almeida, Rui Jorge, Bast{\"u}rk, Nalan, and Smeekes, Stephan. Data and Code for: Min(d)ing the President - A text analytic approach to measuring tax news. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2025. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-03-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E205441V1",
year = "2025",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1257/mac.20210226",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "285--314",
journal = "American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics",
issn = "1945-7707",
publisher = "American Economic Association",
number = "2",
}