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Why Regression? Binary Encoding Classification Brings Confidence to Stock Market Index Price Prediction

Stock market indices serve as fundamental market measurement that quantify systematic market dynamics. However, accurate index price prediction remains challenging, primarily because existing approaches treat indices as isolated time series and frame the prediction as a simple regression task. These

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7 ·  May 18, 2025

Testing Business Cycle Theories: Evidence from the Great Recession

Empirical business cycle studies using cross-country data usually cannot achieve causal relationships while within-country studies mostly focus on the bust period. We provide the first causal investigation into the boom period of the 1999-2010 U.S. cross-metropolitan business cycle. Using a novel re

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 8.5 ·  March 6, 2024

Household Leverage Cycle Around the Great Recession

This paper provides the first causal evidence that credit supply expansion caused the 1999-2010 U.S. business cycle mainly through the channel of household leverage (debt-to-income ratio). Specifically, induced by net export growth, credit expansion in private-label mortgages, rather than government

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 8 ·  March 15, 2024

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