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Title: Distilling the Macroeconomic News Flow

Author(s): Alessandro Beber, Michael Brandt and Maurizio Luisi

Publication Date: February 2013

Keyword(s): disagreement., macroeconomic news and nowcasting

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: We propose a simple cross-sectional technique to extract daily latent factors from economic news releases available at different dates and frequencies. Our approach can effectively handle the large number of heterogeneous announcements that are relevant for tracking current economic conditions. We apply the technique to extract real-time measures of inflation, output, employment, and macroeconomic sentiment, as well as corresponding measures of disagreement among economists about these dimensions of the data. We find that our procedure provides more timely and accurate forecasts of the future evolution of the economy than other real-time forecasting approaches in the literature.

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Beber, A, Brandt, M and Luisi, M. 2013. 'Distilling the Macroeconomic News Flow'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9360