@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-llms-take, title = "Can {LLM}s Take the Pulse of the Economy? A Real-Time Evaluation of {LLM} Nowcasts on Macroeconomic Indicators", author = "Zhao, Xinyue and Zhang, Ruiyi and Ye, Liqin and Cao, Rui and Xie, Pengtao and Chava, Sudheer", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.800/", pages = "18583--18630", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }