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title: Can Machine Learning Catch Economic Recessions Using Economic and Market Sentiments?
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4553506/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4553506
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4553506
featured: 2023-08-30
citations: 9
topic: LLMs & Text
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# Can Machine Learning Catch Economic Recessions Using Economic and Market Sentiments?

The paper uses machine learning to predict US economic recessions using market sentiment and economic indicators, using the ARIMA method for backcasting.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4553506
- Identifier: SSRN 4553506
- Released: 2023-06-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 14 (2023-08-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-08-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 9
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: LLMs & Text

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