Francesco Giavazzi, speaking on “Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties: Analyzing Text from Twitter"
The Hoover Institution announces a new 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 3rd session features a conversation with Francesco Giavazzi speaking on Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties: Analyzing Text from Twitter on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT and the paper under discussion written by Francesco Giavazzi, Felix Iglhaut, Giacomo Lemoli and Gaia Ruberacan be found here.
To view all the workshops in this series, click here.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Francesco Giavazzi is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council. He is a Research Fellow and a former Trustee of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), NBER research associate, Scientific Committee Chair (CEPII, Paris), Bellagio Group member. In 1991 Giavazzi contributed to founding IGIER, an economics research institute jointly created by NBER, CEPR and Bocconi University, serving as first Director and President to 2002. Giavazzi was also the Deputy Director General of the Italian Treasury 1991-1994; Spending Review Advisor, Italian Government, 2012; Federal Reserve Bank of New York adviser, 2013, 2015, 2016; Group of Economic Advisers to the Italian Prime Minister 1998-2000; Group of Economic Advisers to the President of the European Commission 2000-2010; the Houblon-Norman Fellow (Bank of England) 2002; External Evaluation Committee Member IMF Research Activities, 1999; Riksbank Evaluation for the Swedish Parliament, 2006 and is the Economic adviser to Italy's PM: 2021- present.
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