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Parallel to the use of Internet and the explosion of social networks, there are emerging alternative approaches to the use of surveys that provide us relevant information about many economic variables. Thus, the information of Internet searches that provides Google Trends has been useful to explain financial variables such as investors’ mood, demand, volatility and liquidity of securities or currencies, as well as non-financial variables as labour market or housing market. In this paper we propose an econometric model which can provide the temperature of entrepreneurship from Google search activity for terms related to entrepreneurship and business creation.
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The questionnaires are available in: http://gemconsortium.org/docs/cat/135/questionnaires
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Gómez Martínez, R., Prado Román, M., Mercado Idoeta, C. (2015). Google Search Activity as Entrepreneurship Thermometer. In: Peris-Ortiz, M., Sahut, JM. (eds) New Challenges in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08888-4_16
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