用虚拟人物模拟美联储决策,预测利率变动。
A Persona-based Rate Action Index

- 构建2.5万个数据块的虚拟人物库,通过生成内容模拟成员立场。
- 人物行为与真实政策立场相关性达0.63,预测准确率0.69高于基线。
- 可提前三个季度预判利率变化,适合金融预测与宏观研究者。
我们提出一种基于虚拟人物的指数,用于预测美国联邦公开市场委员会(FOMC)是否加息、维持或降息。通过收集近2.5万条公开数据块,将每名成员的数据划分为独立语料库,构建一个称为“人物”的生成系统。评估显示,人物行为高度可追溯(平均成员条件召回率是随机的8倍),生成内容几乎无法与真实内容区分(检测得分𝑚_{棄盘}=0.23,低于0.15基准)。查询条件下的人物表征能有效捕捉成员在鹰鸽排序中的货币政策立场(肯德尔τ=0.63,p<0.001),显著优于仅依赖检索的表示方法。这些表征随时间与市场条件动态变化,构成所提出的基于人物的利率行动指数。在2022–2025年期间,该指数与利率周期高度一致(肯德尔τ=0.68,p<10⁻⁶),并可用于构建简单分类器,实现非平凡的会议结果预测准确率(0.69,基线为0.47)。重要的是,该指数优于多个有信息量的基线,并领先联邦基金目标利率约三个季度。据我们所知,这是首次证明可通过一组数字人物捕捉随时间变化的群体行为。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We propose an index for predicting the U.S.\ Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to hike/hold/cut the current federal funds target rate based on how a collection of personas responds to current market conditions. To construct the index, we collected a new dataset consisting of nearly $25{,}000$ retrievable chunks from publicly available data. We partition the data into per-member corpora and use each as the retrieval database of a generative system we refer to throughout as a ``persona''. We first evaluate the personas across two complementary components of likeness: identifiability and detectability. Each persona's behavior is highly attributable (average member-conditional recall is $ 8\times $ chance) and generated content is nearly indistinguishable from held-out real content ($\hatτ_{\mathrm{det}} = 0.23$ against a $0.15$ floor). We then present evidence that query-conditioned representations of the personas capture members' monetary-policy stance relative to a known hawk--dove reputational ordering (Kendall's $τ= 0.63$, $p < 0.001$), substantially outperforming retrieval-only representations. These representations vary with time and current market conditions and form the basis of our proposed persona-based rate action index. For the $2022$--$2025$ period the index tracks the rate cycle (Kendall's $τ= 0.68$, $p < 10^{-6}$) and can be used to construct a simple classifier that predicts per-meeting outcomes at non-trivial accuracy ($0.69$ versus a $0.47$ base rate). Importantly, the index outperforms informative baselines and leads the federal funds target rate by roughly three quarters. As far as we are aware, our results are the first to demonstrate the ability to capture time-varying group behavior via a collection of digital personas.
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