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title: Macroeconomic Belief Distortions
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5006789/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5006789
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5006789
featured: 2024-11-06
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Macroeconomic Belief Distortions

An economic belief indicator, developed using a data-rich environment and machine learning, corrects macroeconomic expectation errors and predicts bond returns.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5006789
- Identifier: SSRN 5006789
- Released: 2024-11-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 73 (2024-11-06): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-11-06/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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