Quantifying priorities in business cycle reports: Analysis of recurring textual patterns around peaks and troughs
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Keywords
Macroeconomic forecasting; Evaluating forecasts; Business cycles; Recession forecasting; Topic Modeling; Natural language processing; Machine learning; Judgemental forecasting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- C45 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Neural Networks and Related Topics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2023-08-21 (Big Data)
- NEP-HIS-2023-08-21 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2023-08-21 (Macroeconomics)
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