Fear sells: On the sentiment deceptions and fundraising success of initial coin offerings
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101716
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Initial Coin Offering (ICO); Natural Language Processing (NLP); Sentiment Dictionaries; Deep Learning; Artificial Neural Networks (ANN);All these keywords.
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