Research Methods Centre- Tools, Methods and Data Workshop
We are excited to present the 1st Tools, Methods & Data Workshop on 19th September 2025.
The aim of the workshop is to tackle the fact that while economics discipline is increasingly looking toward development in data science and statistics (e.g., big-data tools, machine learning, spatial statistics, remote sensing), it can take considerable time for a practitioner to adapt these tools to their research. The workshop will highlight different applications of novel methods and data to economics and political economy while focusing on themes of causality and credibility, administrative and open data; environment, culture, and social media data; and text and image data. The workshop will provide a chance for early career researchers to network with and learn from others working in the field.
| An University of Exeter Business School workshop | |
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| Date | 19 September 2025 |
| Time | 9:00 to 17:30 |
| Place | Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C |
| Provider | University of Exeter Business School |
Event details
Schedule
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
Session 1
9:15 – 10:00 Matthew Gordon (PSE)
Dumps (with Anna Papp)
10:00 - 10:45 Tillmann von Carnap (University of Oslo)
Using satellite imagery to map rural marketplaces and monitor their activity at high frequency
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Keynote #1
11:00 -12:00 Christopher Rauh ( IAE-CSIC, Barcelona & University of Cambridge)
The Information Rent of Forecasts: An Application to Conflict
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch
Session 2
13:15 – 14:00 Thomas Renault (University Paris-Saclay, RITM)
Emotion and Policy Views (with Yann Algan, Eva Davoine, and Stefanie Stantcheva)
14:00 – 14:45 Achim Ahrens (CERGE-EI)
An Introduction to Double/Debiased Machine Learning (with Victor Chernozhukov, Christian Hansen, Damian Kozbur, Mark Schaffer, Thomas Wiemann)
Keynote #2
14:45-15:45 Elena Manresa (Princeton University)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Session 3
16:00 – 16:45 Marie Beigelman (Kings College London)
From (handwritten) archives to structured data
16:45 – 17:30 Paul Bose (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
Connecting or Dividing? Polarisation and Recommendation Algorithms
17:30 – 18:00 Drinks Reception
Please register via Eventbrite
Location:
Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C
