Detecting Political Business Cycles: A Machine Learning Approach To Analyze the Prime Minister’s Daily Schedule

• In Event: Political Business Cycles

Brief Overview

This paper, by using advanced machine learning algorisms, analyzes text data that tracks Japanese prime ministers’ (PMs’) detailed daily schedules for 46 years and investigates when and how political business cycles occur in Japan.

Authors

• Sota Kato, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research

• Takafumi Nakanishi, Musashino University

• Budrul Ahsan, Philips Japan