The Hoover Institution hosts a seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 13th session features a conversation with Peter Andre, Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, and Johannes Wohlfart speaking on Narratives about the Macroeconomy on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT and the paper under discussion can be found here.
Peter Andre is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the briq – Institute on Behavior & Inequality. His main research field is behavioral economics. He studies people's economic expectations, perceptions, and fairness views.
Ingar Haaland am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). I received my PhD from NHH in 2019 and spent three years at the University of Bergen before returning to NHH in 2022. I use experimental methods, such as information provision experiments, to study economic behavior across different domains, including political economy, household finance, and macroeconomics.
Christopher Roth received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2018. He is a Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Cologne. He is a member of ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence: Markets & Public Policy. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods. He is a Research Affiliate at the Institute on Behavior and Inequality (briq). He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a Affiliate Member of the CESifo Research Network.
Johannes Wohlfart is a Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality at the University of Copenhagen and a CESifo Research Network Affiliate. In his research he uses observational and experimental data to work on questions in behavioral finance and behavioral economics. In particular, his research focuses on belief formation and the role of beliefs in shaping consumption and financial behavior. He completed his PhD in 2019 at Goethe University Frankfurt and hold an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Steven J. Davis is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 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.
Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics.
