Mapping the space of central bankers’ ideas

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Mapping the space of central bankers’ ideas

By Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

This paper explores the landscape of economic ideas as revealed in the machine learning embedding of a comprehensive dataset of central bank speeches. This dataset, maintained by the BIS, encompasses 19,742 speeches delivered by almost 1,000 officials from over 100 central banks over a period spanning three decades, from 1997 to 2025.

  • Use cases, geography and tags
  • Organizations that created, adopted or are mentioned
  • Ecosystem position
  • Link to the original asset
  • Comments and reactions