A FORWARD GUIDANCE INDICATOR FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK: IMPLEMENTING A TEXT ANALYSIS ALGORITHMFootnote

† We would like to extend our gratitude to Lars Christensen and Laurids Rising for sharing their generic sentiment library and for their valuable input in the early stages of this project. We would like to also thank all the reviewers (official and unofficial) for their valuable comments throughout the research and writing process of this project.

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