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Artificial Intelligence and Inflation Forecasts

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Miguel Faria-e-Castro
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Fernando Leibovici
DOI:10.20955/r.2024.12delete
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Abstract

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We explore the ability of large language models (LLMs) to produce in-sample conditional inflation forecasts during the 2019-23 period. We use a leading LLM (Google AI's PaLM) to produce distributions of conditional forecasts at different horizons and compare these forecasts to those of a leading source, the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). We find that LLM forecasts generate lower mean-squared errors overall in most years and at almost all horizons. LLM forecasts exhibit slower reversion to the 2 percent inflation anchor.

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Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Review
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fed reserve bank st louis
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11
Papers: 8
Citations: 0