Our 26th workshop features a conversation with Bo Sun on “U.S.-China Tension” on September 18, 2024, from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
The Hoover Institution Workshop on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis showcases applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to analyze text as data for examining policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Bo Sun is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She studies economic implications of information friction and uncertainty, including their effects on contracting design, financial market trading, and macroeconomic activity. Prior to joining UVA Darden, she was a Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and B.A. in Finance from Peking University.
Steven J. Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He studies business dynamics, labor markets, and public policy. He advises the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum and is co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Davis hosts “Economics, Applied,” a podcast series sponsored by the Hoover Institution.
Erin Baggott Carter is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, a faculty affiliate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute, and a nonresident scholar at the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego. She has previously held fellowships at the CDDRL and Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. She received a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
