arXiv:2606.30395cs.CYcs.CL2026-06

用模拟人群还原消费者信心波动,揭示关键事件如何影响不同群体

Uncovering Salience-Driven Dynamics in Consumer Confidence with Generative Social Simulation

论文配图:Uncovering Salience-Driven Dynamics in Consumer Confidence with Generative Social Simulation
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  • 构建虚拟家庭群,融合经济数据与新闻信号生成信心变化
  • 在美欧日三地重建信心指数,高关注度事件时效果提升显著
  • 适合政策研究者和行为经济学学者,可解释群体差异与响应机制

消费者信心通常被当作持续性的宏观经济指标,但其变动源于家庭在异质性约束、信息暴露、先验信念和注意力下的解读。我们提出ConsumerSim,一种生成式人-环境响应框架,基于微观数据校准的合成人口、带时间戳的宏观、金融、政策和新闻信号,生成类调查回应、后分层信念扩展及行为惯性对齐,重建消费者信心指数(CCI)动态。在美、欧27国、日本官方CCI目标序列中,ConsumerSim在持久性、时间序列、回归和信息增强基线中排名第一,尤其在高显著性冲击下表现突出。重建信号还提升了短期真实活动预测能力,对住房结果最稳定。机制分析显示,信心波动集中于显著事件;群体轨迹方向一致但幅度不同;信号敏感度随收入、房主身份、教育程度和政治倾向而异。人口扩展与消融实验表明,代表性聚合、情境信号、人格异质性和惯性对精度与诊断均至关重要。研究支持将消费者信心视为可解释的人-环境响应过程,而非纯聚合时间序列。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Consumer confidence is typically modeled as a persistent macroeconomic index, yet its movements arise from households that interpret economic information through heterogeneous constraints, exposures, prior beliefs, and attention. We introduce ConsumerSim, a generative Human--Environment response framework that reconstructs Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) dynamics from a microdata-calibrated synthetic population, time-stamped macroeconomic, financial, policy, and news signals, survey-like response generation, post-stratified belief expansion, and behavioral inertia alignment. Across U.S., EU27, and Japanese official CCI target series, ConsumerSim ranks first among persistence, time-series, regression, and information-augmented baselines on the reported reconstruction metrics, with clear gains around high-salience shocks. Its reconstructed signal also improves short-horizon prediction of real activity, most consistently for housing outcomes. Mechanism analyses show that CCI movements concentrate around salient events; subgroup trajectories often align in direction while differing in magnitude; and signal sensitivity varies across income, homeownership, education, and political-alignment groups. Population-expansion and ablation results indicate that representative aggregation, situational signals, persona heterogeneity, and inertia are necessary for both accuracy and diagnosis. The findings support a behavioral view of consumer confidence as an interpretable Human--Environment response process rather than a purely aggregate time series.

行为经济学模拟仿真消费者信心社会模拟

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