Harnessing AI for Better Economic Measurement and Decisions

⚡️Title:

Harnessing AI for Better Economic Measurement and Decision Making

📝 About the talk:

Peter John Lambert and Thiemo Fetzer will showcase a range of applications of how AI can be leveraged to improve the quality of economic measurement focusing on investment, supply chains, and subnational economic activity. This has broad implications for evidence-based policy making, the design of financial regulation, trade policy and the collection and disemmination of official statistics.

🎙️ About the speakers:

Thiemo Fetzer is a Professor of Economics at University of Warwick and Bonn. He is also a fellow or affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Granthan Institute at the London school of Economics, and a scientific advisor to the Applied Economics AI group.

Peter John Lambert is a researcher at the London School of Economics and co-founder of the Applied Economics AI group. He is also affiliated with Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) at the London School of Economics.