A Persona-based Rate Action Index
This study proposes a novel approach based on digital personality modeling to predict Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) interest rate decisions—specifically, rate hikes, holds, or cuts. By constructing individualized corpora for each FOMC member and integrating retrieval-augmented generation with a personalized response mechanism, the method dynamically captures the temporal evolution of their monetary policy stances. This work presents the first interpretable model of FOMC collective behavior and yields a predictive index that leads the policy rate by approximately three quarters. Evaluated over the 2022–2025 sample period, the index exhibits strong alignment with actual rate cycles (Kendall’s τ = 0.68) and achieves a classification accuracy of 0.69, significantly outperforming benchmark models (0.47).