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Domenico Giannone, an internationally recognized thought leader in econometrics and macroeconomic forecasting, is searching for innovative methods to better understand the complexities of global ...

The field of economic models and forecasting encompasses the development and application of theoretical, empirical and computational frameworks to predict future economic outcomes. These models range ...

The innovation at the heart of this research lies in combining Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to tackle financial time series data. These architectures ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...

The Federal Reserve is stuck in a mode of forecasting and public communication that looks increasingly limited, especially as the economy keeps delivering surprises. The issue is not the forecasts ...

FILE - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, center, accompanied by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, left, speaks during the Thomas Laubach Research Conference at the William McChesney ...

Every election is a fork in the road. On the stump across America, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris offer strikingly different visions of the economy they’d seek to build after winning the presidency in ...

In fields including computer science and data science, it is common practice when predicting outcomes such as customer churn or image recognition to focus on variables with the highest predictive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A business leader looking at plans for 2025 and 2026 sees politics in every news report. Most of us have a deep, visceral reaction ...