2026 Job Market · Rutgers Economics

Kaiwen
Qiu

Econometrician building real-time forecasts from economic data and language.

I study when high-dimensional data and LLM-derived narratives improve macroeconomic and financial forecasts—and evaluate them under the information constraints forecasters actually face.

INTERACTIVE RESEARCH PROTOTYPE
3 classes

What does this text imply for the economy?

EconBERT classifies macroeconomic direction rather than surface emotion. Try a validated example below.

Economic tone+0.62
● Positive
−1 Negative0+1 Positive
Negative12%
Neutral14%
Positive74%

Illustrative interface using precomputed research examples. Score = P(positive) − P(negative).

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Job Market PaperReal-time narrative indices
4 papersEconometrics · LLMs · RL
PGIM · 2025Quantitative research
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