Regional Economic Sentiment: Constructing Quantitative Estimates from the Beige Book and Testing Their Ability to Forecast Recessions release_wn6m4cvoazbntf4akmv4owilgu

by Ilias Filippou, Christian Garciga, James Mitchell, My T. Nguyen

Published in Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Economic Commentary by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

2024   Issue 2024-08

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<jats:p xml:lang="en">We use natural language processing methods to quantify the sentiment expressed in the Federal Reserve's anecdotal summaries of current economic conditions in the national and 12 Federal Reserve District-level economies as published eight times per year in the Beige Book since 1970. We document that both national and District-level economic sentiment tend to rise and fall with the US business cycle. But economic sentiment is extremely heterogeneous across Districts, and we find that national economic sentiment is not always the simple aggregation of District-level sentiment. We show that the heterogeneity in District-level economic sentiment can be used, over and above the information contained in national economic sentiment, to better forecast US recessions.
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