Understanding behavioral aspects of collective decision-making is an important challenge for eco-nomics, and narratives are a crucial group-based mechanism that influences human decision-making. This paper introduces the Character-Role Narrative Framework as a tool to systematically analyze...

Based on evidence gathered from a newly built large macroeconomic data set for the UK, labeled UK-MD and comparable to similar datasets for the US and Canada, it seems the most promising avenue for forecasting during the pandemic is to allow for general forms of nonlinearity by using machine...

Generative Künstliche Intelligenz beschreibt eine Klasse von KI-Systemen, die in der Lage sind, aus großen Datenmengen zu lernen und auf dieser Grundlage neue, bisher nicht gesehene Inhalte zu generieren, wie beispielsweise Texte, Bilder, Musik oder Videos. Dabei wird die...

Politicians, scientists and journalists have aired vastly different assessments of the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from rather optimistic to very pessimistic ones. In this paper we investigate how narratives conveying different assessments of the pandemic impact economic behavior. In a controlled...