“NLP Economics: Fundamentals to Frontier 2025”, was organized by the Bank of Italy (Banca d’Italia) and the Italian Econometric Society in Perugia, Italy, from 30 June to 4 July 2025. Participants were selected on the basis of their curricula vitae and included PhD students from various European institutions as well as researchers from central banks.
The program consisted of daily sessions from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., led by Professors Amy Handlan (Brown University) and Vitaly Meursault (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia). The lectures combined theoretical and practical approaches, focusing on the use of textual data in economic research. The course covered the full spectrum of methods, ranging from fundamental concepts to the latest advances in the field.
The training proved particularly valuable for my own research, which explores the prediction of financial time series through text mining and natural language processing (NLP).