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Author:Sinha, Nitish R. 

Discussion Paper
Using Generative AI Models to Understand FOMC Monetary Policy Discussions

In an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), the public’s understanding of economic policy may be filtered through the lens of generative AI models (also called large language models or LLMs). Generative AI models offer the promise of quickly ingesting and interpreting large amounts of textual information.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2024-12-06-1

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Which Market Indicators Best Forecast Recessions?

In this note, we use econometric methods to infer which economic and financial indicators reliably identify and predict recessions.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2016-08-02

Working Paper
What's the Story? A New Perspective on the Value of Economic Forecasts

We apply textual analysis tools to measure the degree of optimism versus pessimism of the text that describes Federal Reserve Board forecasts published in the Greenbook. The resulting measure of Greenbook text sentiment, ?Tonality,? is found to be strongly correlated, in the intuitive direction, with the Greenbook point forecast for key economic variables such as unemployment and inflation. We then examine whether Tonality has incremental power for predicting unemployment, GDP growth, and inflation up to four quarters ahead. We find it to have significant and substantive predictive power for ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2017-107

Discussion Paper
A New Index to Measure U.S. Financial Conditions

This note proposes a new index that can be used to gauge broad financial conditions and assess how these conditions are related to future economic growth. The index is broadly consistent with how the FRB/US model generally relates key financial variables to economic activity.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2023-06-30

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