Analysing the behaviour of online investors in times of geopolitical distress
Journal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence
Year: 2017

In this paper we analysed how the behavior of an online financial community changed in times of geopolitical crises. In particular, we studied the behaviour and communication patterns of online investors before and after a military geopolitical event. We selected a set of 23 key-events belonging to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring and the first period of the Ukraine crisis, and we restricted our study to a set of eight so called war stocks. We studied the resilience of the commu