Ease of readability of Economics Letters journal abstracts, and number of works cited in an article, is positively related to future citations. Readability appears to particularly matter for mathematical and quantitative methods and macroeconomics papers, while number of works cited is generally...

We provide a first comprehensive structuring of the literature applying machine learning to finance. We use a probabilistic topic modeling approach to make sense of this diverse body of research spanning across the disciplines of finance, economics, computer sciences, and decision sciences....