Inflation technique solves causal compatibility problem.
problem Determining if a graph is a plausible causal explanation for a distribution.
method Formal hierarchy of linear programming relaxations for causal compatibility.
result The inflation technique converges to a zero-error test for causal compatibility.
The paper evaluates various forecasting methods for inflation, finding ML models superior.
problem Forecasting inflation using disaggregated data and machine learning.
method Examines traditional and machine learning models, including random forest, for disaggregated and aggregated inflation forecasts.
result Aggregating disaggregated forecasts performs similarly to survey-based expectations and aggregate models.
The paper analyzes global inflation's systemic nature and its impact on equity markets.
problem Understanding the systemic nature of global inflation and its financial market implications.
method Data-driven study using eigenvalue analysis, inner-product optimization, and time-varying portfolio optimization.
result Countries with high centrality in global inflation are identified, and the robustness of equity indices and sectors during inflationary periods are explored.
The problem of causal inference is to determine if a given probability distribution on observed variables is compatible with some causal structure. The difficult case is when the causal structure includes latent variables. We here introduce the inflation technique for tackling this problem. An inflation of a…
Machine learning reveals key factors in Indian food inflation.
problem Understanding and mitigating food inflation in India.
method Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (BRT) analysis of multiple factors.
result MSP and farm wages are crucial in food price changes, not international prices.
Investment strategy for DC pension plan with inflation risk and tail VaR constraint.
problem Maximizing terminal wealth for pension member with tail VaR constraint.
method Lagrange method and quantile optimization techniques.
result Optimal investment strategy and output in closed-form derived.
Contrastive learning benefits from generated data but can be harmed by it too.
problem Contrastive learning's reliance on data augmentation and the impact of generated data.
method Investigates the role of generated data in contrastive learning and proposes Adaptive Inflation (AdaInf).
result Generated data can sometimes harm contrastive learning, and AdaInf improves performance.
News on inflation and monetary policy impacts US household inflation expectations.
problem Understanding how news affects inflation expectations.
method Monthly disaggregated US data from 1978 to 2016, controlling for various factors.
result News on rising inflation and easier monetary policy has a stronger impact on inflation expectations.
The main aim of this paper is to inspect the properties of survey based on households inflation expectations, conducted by Reserve Bank of India. It is theorized that the respondents answers are exaggerated by extreme response bias. Latent class analysis has been hailed as a promising technique for studying measurement…
New core inflation measure predicts future headline inflation.
problem Creating a better measure of core inflation for timely policy decisions.
method Assemblage Regression, a nonnegative ridge regression that optimizes subcomponent weights.
result Significant improvements in forecasting medium-term inflation developments.
Analyzing historical data of price indices we find an extraordinary growth phenomenon in several examples of hyper-inflation in which price changes are approximated nicely by double-exponential functions of time. In order to explain such behavior we introduce the general coarse-graining technique in physics, the Monte …
Inflating the minimum norm interpolator improves linear regression generalization error.
problem Highly anisotropic covariances and diverging d/n in linear regression. method Inflating the minimum ℓ2 norm interpolator by a constant greater than one. result Inflating the minimum norm interpolator improves generalization error.
We prove that the space of symplectic packings of CP2 by k equal balls is connected for 3≤k≤6. The proof is based on Gromov-Witten invariants and on the inflation technique due to Lalonde and McDuff.
The paper calculates sensitivities for financial derivatives using path weighting methods.
problem Computing sensitivities for path-dependent financial derivatives with high variance and degeneracy issues.
method Proposes explicit path weighting formula, variance reduction adjustment, and covariance inflation technique.
result Effective methods to address high variance and degeneracy in sensitivities computation.
Bitcoin reacts negatively to inflation surprises, contrary to belief.
problem Bitcoin's ability to hedge inflation is questioned.
method Examined cryptocurrency responses to macroeconomic news announcements.
result Bitcoin's price decreases by 24 bps in response to inflationary surprises.
This paper proposes the use of wavelet methods to estimate U.S. core inflation. It explains wavelet methods and suggests they are ideally suited to this task. Comparisons are made with traditional CPI-based and regression-based measures for their performance in following trend inflation and predicting future inflation.…
Study finds relevance of exchange and inflation rates to economic factors.
problem Determining the relevance of exchange and inflation rates to economic factors.
method Introduced concept of adequacy, established positive relation between exchange and inflation rates and other economic factors.
result Close positive relation found between exchange and inflation rates and other economic factors.
The paper discusses the role of monetary policy when potential output depends on the inflation rate. If the intention of the central bank is to maximize actual output growth, then it has to be credibly committed to a strict inflation targeting rule, and to take the MOGIR (the Maximizing Output Growth Inflation Rate) as…
We employ the Bayesian framework to define a cointegration measure aimed to represent long term relationships between time series. For visualization of these relationships we introduce a dissimilarity matrix and a map based on the Sorting Points Into Neighborhoods (SPIN) technique, which has been previously used to ana…
The Lucas critique has exposed the problem of the trade-off between changes in monetary policy and structural breaks in economic time series. The search for and characterisation of such breaks has been a major econometric task ever since. We have developed an integral technique similar to CUSUM using an empirical model…
ZICO learns DAGs from zero-inflated count data efficiently.
problem Learning network structures from zero-inflated count data.
method ZICO uses node-wise likelihoods with canonical links and a differentiable surrogate constraint for acyclicity.
result ZICO achieves superior performance and faster runtimes on simulated data.
The evolution of inflation, p(t), and unemployment, UE(t), in Japan has been modeled. Both variables were represented as linear functions of the change rate of labor force, dLF/LF. These models provide an accurate description of disinflation in the 1990s and a deflationary period in the 2000s. In Japan, there exists a …
New ZIPLN model accounts for zero-inflation in multivariate count data.
problem Zero-inflation in multivariate count data.
method Introduced Zero-Inflated PLN (ZIPLN) model with variational inference.
result ZIPLN significantly improves log-likelihood and reduces dispersion.
Regularized mixtures improve inflation and interest rate forecasts, especially correcting overconfidence.
problem Improving density forecasts of Eurozone inflation and real interest rates.
method Construct regularized mixtures of density forecasts with various objectives and penalties.
result Regularized mixtures outperform individual forecasters, especially correcting overconfidence.
A new model family of zero-inflated Gaussian processes improves prediction and interpretability of rare event data.
problem Poor performance of conventional machine learning on zero-inflated datasets.
method Sparse kernels and latent probit Gaussian processes to zero out kernel rows and columns.
result Improves prediction of zero-inflated data and interpretability of latent mixing models.
Generative models' evaluation scores can be misleading, leading to inflated grades.
problem Misleading evaluation scores for generative models.
method Analyzed and compared various scores for evaluating synthetic vs. ground-truth data.
result The Eden score avoids grade inflation and better aligns with human perception.
Paper proposes copula-based models for analyzing multivariate zero-inflated continuous data.
problem Challenges in analyzing multivariate zero-inflated continuous data with mixed discreteness and continuity.
method Proposes two copula-based density estimation models and rectified Gaussian copula.
result Demonstrates superior performance compared to conventional methods.
We test for the long-run relationship between stock prices, inflation and its uncertainty for different U.S. sector stock indexes, over the period 2002M7 to 2015M10. For this purpose we use a cointegration analysis with one structural break to capture the crisis effect, and we assess the inflation uncertainty based on …
Interest rate market models, like the LIBOR market model, have the advantage that the basic model quantities are directly observable in financial markets. Inflation market models extend this approach to inflation markets, where zero-coupon and year-on-year inflation-indexed swaps are the basic observable products. For …
Paper uses LSTM to predict inflation, finds it performs well over long periods.
problem Predicting inflation using machine learning models.
method Applies LSTM, a recurrent neural network, to forecast inflation over time.
result LSTM model performs well at long horizons and during uncertain economic times.
Starting with an ideal triangulation of the interior of a compact 3-manifold M with boundary, no component of which is a 2-sphere, we provide a construction, called an inflation of the ideal triangulation, to obtain a strongly related triangulations of M itself. Besides a step-by-step algorithm for such a construction,…
We model the rate of inflation and unemployment in Austria since the early 1960s within the Phillips/Fisher framework. The change in labour force is the driving force representing economic activity in the Phillips curve. For Austria, this macroeconomic variable was first tested as a predictor of inflation and unemploym…
Paper introduces ZIPTF and C-ZIPTF for better tensor factorization of zero-inflated count data.
problem Inefficient tensor factorization for zero-inflated count data, especially in scRNA-seq.
method Zero Inflated Poisson Tensor Factorization (ZIPTF) and Consensus Zero Inflated Poisson Tensor Factorization (C-ZIPTF).
result ZIPTF and C-ZIPTF improve tensor factorization accuracy and consistency for zero-inflated count data.
We develop a model to price inflation and interest rates derivatives using continuous-time dynamics that have some links with macroeconomic monetary DSGE models equipped with a Taylor rule: in particular, the reaction function of the central bank, the bond market liquidity, inflation and growth expectations play an imp…
Study uses social network data to analyze regional inflation trends.
problem Analyzing inflation trends using social media data.
method BERT neural networks for identifying pro-inflationary and disinflationary keywords.
result Models can visualize and classify inflationary keywords in different contexts.
Optimal text-based indices track VIX and inflation.
problem Maximizing contemporaneous relation or predictive performance with target variables.
method Optimizing text-based indices focusing on VIX and inflation expectations.
result Superior performance compared to existing indices.
Investment and insurance strategy optimized under inflation using BSDEs.
problem Optimal investment, consumption, and insurance selection in inflationary environment.
method Theory of quadratic-exponential backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with jumps.
result Explicit solutions for optimal investment strategies under exponential and power utilities.
This article is an extension of the work of one of us (Coopersmith, 2011) in deriving the relationship between certain interest rates and the inflation rate of a two component economic system. We use the well-known Fisher relation between the difference of the nominal interest rate and its inflation adjusted value to e…
Inflated neural networks improve IPMN diagnosis from MRI scans.
problem Challenges in diagnosing IPMN from limited annotated data and 3D volumetric MRI.
method Developed two novel inflated deep network architectures, InceptINN and DenseINN, trained on ImageNet.
result Absolute improvement of 8.76% in accuracy for diagnosing IPMN.
New model improves European inflation and interest rate predictions.
problem Improving predictions of European inflation and interest rates.
method Stochastic, continuous time model with unique solution for valuation equation.
result Model performs better on market data from 2008 to 2015.
Funds inflate their returns due to price pressure, leading to wealth reallocation and market crashes.
problem Funds inflate their returns due to price pressure, leading to wealth reallocation and market crashes.
method Decomposed fund returns into price pressure and fundamental components, and identified the impact of price chasing on fund flows.
result Funds' self-inflated returns lead to wealth reallocation and market crashes, and can be predicted by fund illiquidity.
We study the shape of inflated surfaces introduced in \cite{B1} and \cite{P1}. More precisely, we analyze profiles of surfaces obtained by inflating a convex polyhedron, or more generally an almost everywhere flat surface, with a symmetry plane. We show that such profiles are in a one-parameter family of curves which w…
Constructs rational models for pricing and managing inflation-linked derivatives.
problem Pricing and risk management of inflation-linked derivatives.
method Rational models constructed in a multiplicative manner, isolating inflation convexity-adjustment.
result Closed-form pricing of various inflation products and exotic swaps.
This study explains and mitigates inflated returns and turnover in SPO-based portfolio optimization.
problem Inflated returns and excessive turnover in SPO-based portfolio optimization.
method KKT-based interpretation of portfolio decisions as ranking over adjusted scores, empirical evaluation of stabilization mechanisms.
result Realistic output constraints and portfolio-level turnover control improve SPO-based strategies.
In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation targeting). The task of our study is to compare econometrically the perform…
This thesis renovates classic models for pricing inflation derivatives.
problem Improving models for pricing inflation derivatives.
method Analysis and renovation of classic interest rate models.
result Renewed HJM framework for inflation derivatives pricing.
Paper classifies economic states and optimizes portfolios for stagflationary environments.
problem Economic uncertainty and stagflationary conditions.
method Mathematical techniques for analyzing multivariate time series, economic driver analysis, self-similarity identification, and portfolio optimization.
result Constructs economic state classifications and computes economic state integrals.
New bandit algorithms improve sparse reward learning.
problem Sparse rewards hinder learning efficiency in real-world bandit applications.
method Developed algorithms based on Upper Confidence Bound and Thompson Sampling for zero-inflated distributions.
result Empirical performance of new algorithms is superior to existing methods.