Mapping Latent Narrative Content Using LLMs: Essay on Economic Uncertainty Drivers

Asymmetric Discourse Homogenization and Shared Language Technology: Evidence from Reddit

I document an ideologically asymmetric break in the pre-existing diversification trend of political discourse, emerging around late 2022, using 6 million Reddit comments from two cross-partisan forums, 2019-2025. Conservative users experienced an interruption of their prior diversification trajectory; progressive users...

Extracting economic issues from news data: with the help of generative AI 1

From Word Counts to Context: Topic Models for Asset Pricing

News may reveal systematic risk, but whether its context enhances the construction of systematic risk factors is still unclear. We seek to test whether utilizing a sentence transformer represents an improvement over techniques such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) in the coherence of topic term lists generated from...

Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer questions about politically contentious issues, yet evaluations typically treat a model's stance as a relatively stable property. Real users, however, communicate political signals through their terminology, assumptions, and personal context. We investigate w...

Governing the evidence base: An empirical framework of AI archetypes for policy analysis

Abstract The practice of public administration is confronted by an overwhelming volume of unstructured textual data, creating a critical bottleneck that challenges the capacity for timely, evidence-based policymaking. While large language models (LLMs) offer a powerful solution, the academic and policy discourse on AI...

From Tone to Trajectory: Continuous Sentiment and the Shape of Monetary Policy Communication

Central bank press conferences are not merely information releases --- they are structured narratives. We study whether the shape of sentiment within a statement, not just its average tone, carries policy-relevant signals. Constructing sentiment arcs for ECB and Fed press conferences along three dimensions --- monetary...