Words Matter: Forecasting Economic Downside Risks with Corporate Textual Data
文字的重要性:利用企业文本数据预测经济下行风险
Accurate forecasting of downside risks to economic growth is critically important for policymakers and financial institutions, particularly in the wake of recent economic crises. This paper extends the Growth-at-Risk (GaR) approach by introducing a novel daily sentiment indicator derived from textual analysis of mandatory corporate disclosures (SEC 10-K and 10-Q reports) to forecast downside risks to economic growth. Using the Loughran--McDonald dictionary and a word-count…