Banca d'Italia, the Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of Canada, Sveriges Riksbank and CEBRA (Central Bank Research Association) are jointly organizing a conference on 'Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics' - the ECONDAT 2024 Fall Meeting, which will take place in Rome on November 13-14, 2024.
The conference aims to promote the discussion and dissemination of empirical and theoretical research in macroeconomics and finance based on unconventional data, big data, machine learning algorithms, data science, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The event will provide an opportunity for exchanges on current topics with representatives from academia, central banks and institutions.
Keynote speakers include Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Stephen Hansen (University College London).
Research papers, either in complete PDF format or as extended abstracts, must be submitted via Conference Maker by June 30, 2024. A detailed conference programme will be published once the various papers have been evaluated and selected.
For further information, please email econdat@bancaditalia.it.
Organizing Committee: Giuseppe Bruno and Juri Marcucci (Banca d'Italia)
Scientific Committee: Cristina Angelico, Valentina Aprigliano, Carolina Camassa, Marta Crispino, Valerio Della Corte, Aldo Glielmo, Sabina Marchetti, Gabriele Rovigatti (Banca d'Italia), Tomaz Cajner, Ricardo Correa, Leland Crane, Christopher Kurz, Paul Soto (Federal Reserve Board), James Chapman, Ajit Desai, Maryam Haghighi (Bank of Canada), Andreas Joseph (Bank of England) and Xin Zhang (Sveriges Riksbank).
