Interpreting the Interpreter: Can We Model post-ECB Conferences Volatility with LLM Agents?

Umberto Collodel

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Abstract: This paper develops a novel method to simulate financial market reactions to European Central Bank (ECB) press conferences using a Large Language Model (LLM). We create a behavioral, agent-based simulation of 30 synthetic traders, each with distinct risk preferences, cognitive biases, and interpretive styles. These agents forecast Euro interest rate swap levels at 3-month, 2-year, and 10-year maturities, with the variation across forecasts serving as a measure of market uncertainty or disagreement. We evaluate three prompting strategies, naive, few-shot (enriched with historical data), and an advanced iterative 'LLM-as-a-Judge' framework, to assess the effect of prompt design on predictive performance. Even the naive approach generates a strong correlation (roughly 0.5) between synthetic disagreement and actual market outcomes, particularly for longer-term maturities. The LLM-as-a-Judge framework further improves accuracy at the first iteration. These results demonstrate that LLM-driven simulations can capture interpretive uncertainty beyond traditional measures, providing central banks with a practical tool to anticipate market reactions, refine communication strategies, and enhance financial stability.

Date: 2025-08
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