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Asia Real Estate Initiative

Transboundary Wildfire Smoke and Expressed Sentiment: Evidence from Twitter

Principal Investigators: Zhengzhen Tan (lead)
Researchers: Rui Du, Ajkel Mino, Jianghao Wang, Siqi Zheng
Year: 2022
Sponsor: Center for Real Estate
Topics: Climate and Sustainable Real Estate, International Real Estate, Real Estate Development and City-making

This project exploits the exogenous variation in wind directions to examine the impacts of transboundary wildfire smoke on expressed sentiment. The findings have important implications for the climate-change-induced psychosocial costs and cross-boundary externalities.

Transboundary Wildfire Smoke and Expressed Sentiment: Evidence from Twitter