Title
From text to bank interrelation maps
Abstract
In the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, interdependencies among banks have come into focus in trying to assess systemic risk. To date, such analysis has largely been based on numerical data. By contrast, this study attempts to gain further insight into bank interconnections by tapping into financial discussion. Co-occurrences of bank names are turned into a network, which can be visualized and analyzed quantitatively, in order to illustrate characteristics of individual banks and the network as a whole. The approach also highlights temporal dynamics of the network, e.g. how global shifts in network structure coincide with severe crisis episodes. The usage of textual data holds an additional advantage in the possibility of gaining a more qualitative understanding of an observed interrelation, through its context. We illustrate our approach using a case study on Finnish banks and financial institutions, based on discussion in 3.9M online posts spanning 9 years.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CIFEr.2014.6924053
Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
bank data processing,data visualisation,text analysis,Finnish banks,Finnish financial institutions,bank interdependency,bank interrelation maps,bank names co-occurrences,data analysis,data visualization,financial discussion,global financial crisis,systemic risk assessment,textual data,bank interrelations,co-occurrences,network analysis,relation extraction,systemic risk,text mining
Journal
abs/1306.3856
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2380-8454
1
0.37
References 
Authors
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Rönnqvist1275.55
Peter Sarlin215618.44