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Do Anecdotes Matter? Exploring the Beige Book through Textual Analysis from 1970 to 2025

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Published: January 15, 2026 00:00

We apply various natural language processing tools to see if the Beige Book is helpful in understanding economic activity. The Beige Book is a gathering of anecdotal compilations of current economic conditions from each Federal Reserve Bank, which is…

Predicting St. Louis Housing Prices with Machine Learning on Market and Assessor Data

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:s9v4u_v1&r=&r=big

Published: January 6, 2026 00:00

Housing markets are more complex than a simple supply-demand relationship. Prices are set by complex market and spatial neighborhood dynamics. Certain cities like St. Louis, MO have experienced dramatic population decline marked by extreme vacancy and…

Replication Study on “Machine Learning from a ‘Universe’ of Signals: The Role of Feature Engineering” (Li et al., 2025)

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Published: January 5, 2026 00:00

This paper replicates and extends the study of Li et al. (2025) to investigate the role of feature engineering in machine learning (ML)-based cross-sectional stock return prediction. We construct a 3-tier feature system with 78 effective features,…

Real-Time Nowcasting of Kyiv’s Regional GRP Using Google Trends and Mixed-Frequency Data

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:oruesi:2026_001&r=&r=big

Published: January 2, 2026 00:00

imely assessment of regional economic activity in Ukraine is severely constrained by institutional and data-related limitations. Official regional gross regional product (GRP) statistics are available only at low frequency, are published with substantial…

The Elaboration of the Patent Processing Instrument Based on Machine Learning Technology

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Published: December 31, 2025 00:00

" Objective - While managing the innovation activity, it is necessary to base it on reliable sources of scientific and technical information, including patent research. However, the existing variety and scale of patent databases necessitate the development…

GDP Nowcasting Performance of Traditional Econometric Models vs Machine-Learning Algorithms: Simulation and Case Studies

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2025/252&r=&r=big

Published: December 5, 2025 00:00

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting? Based on our evaluation of all models from both classes ever used in nowcasting across simulation and six country cases,…

Socioeconomic Inequality in Longevity: A Multidimensional Approach

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Published: December 1, 2025 00:00

Socioeconomic inequality in longevity is typically measured using a single socioeconomic indicator such as education or income. We combine multiple indicators—education, income, occupation, wealth, and IQ scores—and apply machine learning to measure…

Text Sentiment About Monetary Policy

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Published: November 25, 2025 00:00

This paper uses text data from Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting transcripts to estimate the reference levels of full employment, inflation, and financial conditions perceived by voting members and to uncover time variation in the Taylor rule…

What Do LLMs Want?

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Published: November 25, 2025 00:00

Large language models (LLMs) are now used for economic reasoning, but their implicit "preferences” are poorly understood. We study LLM preferences as revealed by their choices in simple allocation games and a job-search setting. Most models favor equal…