San Francisco Fed

Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy

This Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the conference “Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy” held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on March 1-2, 2002, under the joint ...
Nature

Agent-Based Modeling in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy

Agent-based modelling (ABM) has emerged as a pivotal tool in macroeconomics and economic policy analysis. By simulating the interactions of numerous heterogeneous agents — such as households, firms, ...
San Francisco Fed

Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy: Conference Summary

Papers presented at the conference on “Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy” held March 6, 2009, at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco addressed such issues as how to model wage and price ...
Law

Natural Language Processing and Survey Data: LDA and the Importance of Topic Modeling

Looking to gain greater insights into surveys? This third part of a series on NLP and survey data explores Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a popular tool to ferret out elusive themes in text comments, ...