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48 results for political forecasting

Model forecasts hourly electricity demand influenced by weather, socio-economic, and political factors.

problem Accurate hourly electricity demand forecasting in the face of multifaceted uncertainties.
method Interpretable probabilistic mid-term forecasting model using Generalized Additive Models (GAMs).
result Highlights vulnerability of countries to extreme weather scenarios under electric heating adoption.

Prediction markets can shape political behavior through persistent signals, not just forecast accuracy.

problem The role of prediction markets beyond forecasting.
method Transaction-level evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Signal Credibility Index (SCI).
result Price signals in prediction markets are more influential due to persistence, breadth of trader types, and cross-platform consensus.

Scores political leanings in Web3 betting markets.

problem Understanding political motivations in decentralized prediction markets.
method Constructing PBLS from Polymarket data, analyzing 15k addresses, 4k events, 8k markets.
result Validated PBLS through internal and external comparisons, revealing political and profit motives.

News attention to financial intermediaries and crises predicts excess bond premium and macroeconomic movements.

problem Drivers of the excess bond premium (EBP).
method News attention to 180 topics captures up to 80% of EBP variation and forecasts macroeconomic movements.
result News attention to financial intermediaries and crises drives up the EBP and predicts macroeconomic downturns.

Taleb (2018) claimed a novel approach to evaluating the quality of probabilistic election forecasts via no-arbitrage pricing techniques and argued that popular forecasts of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election had violated arbitrage boundaries. We show that under mild assumptions all such political forecasts are arbitra…

2019-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The study shows how trade uncertainty affects stock-bond correlations over time.

problem Impact of trade policy uncertainty on stock-bond correlations.
method Daily data analysis using GARCH-based models (CCC, STCC, DCC) with TPU and political dummy variables.
result Time-varying correlation models better capture the dynamics of stock-bond correlations than constant models.

Social media signals have been successfully used to develop large-scale predictive and anticipatory analytics. For example, forecasting stock market prices and influenza outbreaks. Recently, social data has been explored to forecast price fluctuations of cryptocurrencies, which are a novel disruptive technology with si…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper finds political networks reduce bond issuance costs in China.

problem The financial value of within-government political networks in China.
method Using municipal leaders' working experience to measure political networks, the study examines the effect on bond issuance yield spreads.
result Political networks reduce bond issuance yield spreads by improving issuer credit ratings, especially in less developed financial markets.

Optimizes neural networks for solving problems with pruning and ensembles of minimal structures.

problem Improving neural network performance and interpretability.
method Pruning neural networks based on the principle of controlling training and pruning, using sensitivity indicators and logically transparent NN.
result Ensemble of minimal neural networks provides diverse forecasting algorithms and identifies areas for further data collection.

This study shows how trade policy uncertainty affects stock-T bill correlations.

problem The impact of trade policy uncertainty on stock-T bill relationships.
method Extended Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) framework incorporating exogenous variables.
result Trade policy uncertainty significantly alters stock-T bill correlations, especially under specific political conditions.

One important effect of price shocks in the United States has been increased political attention paid to the structure and performance of oil and natural gas markets, along with some governmental support for energy conservation. This paper describes how price changes helped lead the emergence of a political agenda acco…

2015-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Based mainly on examples of interest in mechanics, we define the notion of a polite group action. One may view this as not only trying to give a more general notion than properness of a group action, but also to more fully understand the role of invariant functions in describing just about everything of interest in red…

2013-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Human stablecoin transactions predict political risk in cryptocurrency markets.

problem Predicting political risk in cryptocurrency markets.
method Structural break analysis and surrogate-based robustness tests.
result Human-driven stablecoin transactions shift significantly before major political events.

Italy's vaccine coverage fell, leading to political debates and online social media discussions.

problem Low vaccine coverage and political debates on immunization in Italy.
method Sentiment analysis of tweets in Italian during 2018 to assess public opinion on vaccines.
result There was disorientation among the public due to political announcements, as evidenced by Twitter data.

The paper introduces GAER to assess market feasibility under geopolitical and institutional constraints.

problem Feasibility of adaptive market efficiency under heterogeneous institutional and geopolitical conditions.
method Structural framework integrating adaptive market theory, institutional economics, and political economy.
result GAER as a diagnostic indicator for portfolio construction feasibility.

The liberalization of electricity markets and the development of renewable energy sources has led to new challenges for decision makers. These challenges are accompanied by an increasing uncertainty about future electricity price movements. The increasing amount of papers, which aim to model and predict electricity pri…

2017-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning predicts US and EuroZone business cycles with high accuracy.

problem Predicting the business cycle phases in US and EuroZone.
method Three machine learning approaches were compared: Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) achieved the best results.
result MLR achieved 65.25% accuracy for EuroZone and 75% for US in predicting business cycle phases.

Decentralized prediction markets use AMMs to pool and withdraw liquidity, improving financial properties.

problem Creating a fair and efficient decentralized prediction market.
method Developed a liquidity-based AMM structure for prediction markets, studied liquidity management, and proposed trading fees.
result The decentralized AMM structure satisfies financial properties and can be managed with liquidity withdrawal.

The paper uses Black-Scholes model to analyze political support and coalition agreements.

problem Determining the minimum support level for a minor party in a pre-electoral coalition.
method Modeling political support as a stochastic process with a deterministic growth rate and applying Black-Scholes option pricing theory.
result The minimum support level for a minor party to gain a representative in a pre-electoral coalition.

Model predicts political ideology using context vectors to mitigate bias and scarcity.

problem Scarcity and selection bias in political ideology prediction.
method Proposes a statistical model decomposing embeddings into context and position vectors, training an end-to-end model for deployment.
result Model can predict ideological labels even with minimal biased data, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Study examines Trump's crypto influence on markets, revealing conflicts and vulnerabilities.

problem Presidential power and cryptocurrency markets during Trump's second term.
method Mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data.
result Political-linked digital assets became a distinct class with systemic vulnerabilities.

Anti-ELAB protests affected Hong Kong firms' stock prices, especially those linked to pan-democrats.

problem Impact of anti-ELAB protests on Hong Kong firms' stock prices.
method Daily protesting intensity measured by number of protestors from 2019/6/6 to 2020/1/17; analyzed stock price changes of firms.
result Anti-ELAB protests negatively affected firms linked to pan-democrats, positively affected red chips.

cMCA uses contrastive learning to identify latent subgroups in political party data.

problem Identifying latent subgroups within political party data.
method Contrastive learning applied to multiple correspondence analysis (MCA).
result cMCA identifies latent subgroups not seen by traditional methods.

Policy shifts between Trump and Biden impact ESG investments, creating volatility.

problem Dramatic policy shifts between Trump and Biden administrations affect ESG investments.
method Analyzes contrasting policies of Trump and Biden administrations and their impacts on ESG investments.
result Policy changes significantly influence ESG investments, leading to volatility and portfolio reassessment.

Fast, global, and sensitively reacting to political, economic and social events of any kind, these are attributes that social media like Twitter share with foreign exchange markets. The leading assumption of this paper is that information which can be distilled from public debates on Twitter has predictive content for …

2014-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines how governance, corruption, and R&D affect economic development.

problem The impact of corruption and governance on economic development.
method General equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a government, including corruption as a fraction of tax revenues.
result Redistribution and innovation-led strategies can mitigate the negative effects of corruption on economic development.

Paper connects fair machine learning to political philosophy, highlighting flaws in ideal approaches.

problem Lack of natural formulation for social desiderata in machine learning.
method Proposes metrics and algorithms to satisfy subsets of fairness parities, trading off against utility.
result Misguided fair machine learning algorithms reflect broader flaws in ideal methodological approaches.

Venice used 'helicopter money' to subsidize during famine and plague, but it caused instability.

problem Subsidizing inhabitants during containment policies while preventing long-term debt increase.
method Net-worth helicopter money strategy, equivalent to monetary expansion generating losses to the issuer.
result The strategy caused much monetary instability and had to be quickly reversed.

This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States of America. We use the meta-data embedd…

2017-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗