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MacroX-Nightlights

Team

Letian Shi

Yiheng Mao

Zhiyu Lei

Alexander Crystal

Mentor

Ajay Anand

Abstract

This project pursues an idea from our sponsor, MacroX, to leverage a novel feature in predicting economic activity. We use  NASA data of city nightlights to forecast various economic indicators for commercial alpha (excess return on investments above the benchmark).

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