---
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- text-generation
pretty_name: 'central banks speeches '
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: description
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: bank
    dtype: string
  - name: Year
    dtype: int64
  - name: Month
    dtype: int64
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 343046098
    num_examples: 19376
  download_size: 179465072
  dataset_size: 343046098
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
tags:
- economics
- finance
---

# Dataset Card

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This dataset consists of central bankers speeches from 1997 to 2025 scrapped automatically from the Bank Of International Settlements website. 
Each speech is associated to a central bank, a date and a description (a metadata provided by the website). 
The dataset covers a wide range of topics in economics from monetary policies to world outlooks, financial stability, unemployment, fiscal policies...

## Credits
Full credits to the [Bank of International Settlements](https://www.bis.org/) for making the resource available through the internet.
Credits to Samuel Chaineau for making it available on HF Hub.