Can LLMs Learn Macroeconomic Narratives from Social Media?
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| author | Gueta, Almog Feder, Amir Gekhman, Zorik Goldstein, Ariel Reichart, Roi |
| author_facet | Gueta, Almog Feder, Amir Gekhman, Zorik Goldstein, Ariel Reichart, Roi |
| contents | This study empirically tests the $\textit{Narrative Economics}$ hypothesis, which posits that narratives (ideas that are spread virally and affect public beliefs) can influence economic fluctuations. We introduce two curated datasets containing posts from X (formerly Twitter) which capture economy-related narratives (Data will be shared upon paper acceptance). Employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, we extract and summarize narratives from the tweets. We test their predictive power for $\textit{macroeconomic}$ forecasting by incorporating the tweets' or the extracted narratives' representations in downstream financial prediction tasks. Our work highlights the challenges in improving macroeconomic models with narrative data, paving the way for the research community to realistically address this important challenge. From a scientific perspective, our investigation offers valuable insights and NLP tools for narrative extraction and summarization using Large Language Models (LLMs), contributing to future research on the role of narratives in economics. |
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| spellingShingle | Can LLMs Learn Macroeconomic Narratives from Social Media? Gueta, Almog Feder, Amir Gekhman, Zorik Goldstein, Ariel Reichart, Roi Computation and Language Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science This study empirically tests the $\textit{Narrative Economics}$ hypothesis, which posits that narratives (ideas that are spread virally and affect public beliefs) can influence economic fluctuations. We introduce two curated datasets containing posts from X (formerly Twitter) which capture economy-related narratives (Data will be shared upon paper acceptance). Employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, we extract and summarize narratives from the tweets. We test their predictive power for $\textit{macroeconomic}$ forecasting by incorporating the tweets' or the extracted narratives' representations in downstream financial prediction tasks. Our work highlights the challenges in improving macroeconomic models with narrative data, paving the way for the research community to realistically address this important challenge. From a scientific perspective, our investigation offers valuable insights and NLP tools for narrative extraction and summarization using Large Language Models (LLMs), contributing to future research on the role of narratives in economics. |
| title | Can LLMs Learn Macroeconomic Narratives from Social Media? |
| topic | Computation and Language Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12109 |