Real-Time Monitoring of Political Crisis with Alternative Data

kaspr March 18, 2019

The recent, nationwide power outages in Venezuela were a stark reminder of how quickly an ongoing political crisis can disrupt a country’s critical infrastructure. These disruptions often lead to output contractions, which in turn can have large adverse effects on a country’s financial markets.  In a more globalized world with international supply chain linkages, a crisis induced […]

Measure Economic and Financial Impacts of Disasters using Alternative Data

kaspr September 18, 2018

Together with our research platform, the IP-Observatory,  we have successfully implemented an IP scanning routine that allows us to monitor Hurricane Florence’s impact on internet infrastructure. In particular, we are using (close to) real-time information about the online/offline activity of over 200,000 carefully selected, unique IP-addresses in the potentially affected areas on the US East Coast. […]