Venice Summer Institute 2022: Using Novel Methods and Data in Applied Microeconomic Research
San Servolo, Venice, Italy
Scientific Organizers: Professor Florian Englmaier and Professor Stephen Hansen
Technological advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, along with the availability of big data, are rapidly changing our environment, from labor markets and firm organization to security, healthcare, and public policy. These developments have also opened new possibilities for researchers, and research (in applied microeconomics) has already been revolutionized by new, granular datasets. In parallel, data science and computer science have developed tools for effectively handling such data.
This workshop will bring together researchers at the frontier of methodological development and those who are early adopters in applying the new methods and innovative data in their respective research fields. Contributions will not be limited to specific areas of applications, and we invite submissions from all areas of applied microeconomics. In terms of methods, we will consider contributions to and applications of already established tools like text mining and machine-learning-based model selection, but will also go beyond this and consider submissions from anyone using unstructured, high-dimensional datasets whether they apply machine learning or not.
Program
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09:00 – 09:10 Welcome & Introduction Session 1
09:10 – 09:50
Toxic Colleagues: Victim & Firm Effects
ABI ADAMS-PRASSL (University of Oxford)09:50 – 10:30
From Friends to Foes: National Identity and Collaboration in Diverse Teams
NADZEYA LAURENTSYEVA (LMU Munich), Helene Strandt10:30 – 10:50
Coffee Break
Session 2
10:50 – 11:30
Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls for Home Reading in Kenya
Bruno Esposito, ANJA SAUTMANN (World Bank)11:30 – 12:10
The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Johannes Stroebel, Michael Bailey, DOMINIC RUSSEL (Harvard), Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Theresa Kuchler12:10 – 12:50
Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
NICOLA LACETERA (University of Toronto)12:50 – 14:30
Lunch Break
Session 3
14:30 – 15:10
No Man is an Island: an Empirical Study on Team Formation and Performance
15:10 – 15:50
Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation
ERINA YTSMA (Carnegie Mellon University15:50 – 16:30
Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space
KATARZYNA BILICKA (Utah State University), Andrè Seidel16:30 – 16:45
Poster Flash Talks (1 Minute each)
16:45 – 17:45
Poster Session with Coffee
17:45 – 18:35
Keynote:
The Demand for Executive Skills
Raffaella Sadun (HBS)19:30
Conference Dinner (San Servolo)
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Session 4
09:30 – 10:10
Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration
ELLIOTT ASH (ETH Zurich), Gloria Gennaro, Dominik Hangartner, and Alessandra Stampi-Bombelli10:10 – 10:50
The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: The Impact of Big Data on Small and Medium Enterprises
RICARD GIL (Queen’s University)10:50 – 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:10 Keynote:
Weakly supervised information extraction
Benjamin Roth (University of Vienna)12:10
Lunch and End of Conference