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Economists in the 2008 Financial Crisis: Slow to See, Fast to Act

Levy, Daniel and Mayer, Tamir and Raviv, Alon (2022): Economists in the 2008 Financial Crisis: Slow to See, Fast to Act. Forthcoming in: Journal of Financial Stability (Forthcoming) No. Forthcoming

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Abstract

We study the economics and finance scholars’ reaction to the 2008 financial crisis using machine learning language analyses methods of Latent Dirichlet Allocation and dynamic topic modelling algorithms, to analyze the texts of 14,270 NBER working papers covering the 1999–2016 period. We find that academic scholars as a group were insufficiently engaged in crises’ studies before 2008. As the crisis unraveled, however, they switched their focus to studying the crisis, its causes, and consequences. Thus, the scholars were “slow-to-see,” but they were “fast-to-act.” Their initial response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis is consistent with these conclusions.

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