Using Text Analysis for Policy-Related Economic Research
Southern Economic Association Annual MeetingView Event Details (southerneconomic.org)
Event features Zhoudan Xie and Tara Sinclair.
Using Text Analysis for Policy-Related Economic Research
Saturday, November 20, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:45 pm EDT
Organizers:
- Susan E. Dudley, The George Washington University
- Zhoudan Xie, The George Washington University
Session Chairs:
- Donald S. Kenkel, Cornell University
Discussants:
- Patrick McLaughlin, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
- Pritha Chaudhuri, Hamilton College
- Joseph Kalmenovitz, Drexel University
- Iqbal Ahmed, Texas State University
Papers:
Sentiment and Uncertainty about Regulation
- Zhoudan Xie, The George Washington University
- Tara Sinclair, The George Washington University
Related research:
- Sentiment and Uncertainty about Regulation
- A Midyear Review of Regulatory Sentiment and Uncertainty
- Regulation and Jobs: The Unequal Employment Effects of Regulatory Uncertainty
- Regulatory Sentiment and Uncertainty under the Trump Administration
- Regulation during COVID-19: News Sentiment Improved, While Uncertainty Remains
- Regulatory Policy Uncertainty under COVID-19
Firm-level Shock Exposures and Stock Returns in the Wake of COVID-19
- Cristhian Seminario-Amez, Imperial College London
- Steve Davis, University of Chicago
- Stephen Hansen, Imperial College London
Deciphering Federal Reserve Communication via Text Analysis of Alternative FOMC Statements
- Taeyoung Doh, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- Dongho Song, Johns Hopkins University
- Shu-Kuei Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Economic Policy Uncertainty in China Since 1949: The View from Mainland Newspapers
- Xuguang (Simon) Sheng, American University
- Steve Davis, University of Chicago
- Dingqian Liu, American University
Other participants from GW:
- Michael D. Bradley -- COVID-19 and the Macroeconomy
- Ruoyu Chen -- Evaluating Carbon Emission Trading Scheme Pilots in China: A View from Space
- Alessandra Fenizia -- Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector
- Irene Foster -- Did Going Test Optional Improve Diversity among Economics Majors? Findings and Implications
- Noel Maurer -- The Roots of Rural Violence in Peru
- Jennifer Seager -- Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence
- Chao Wei -- A Tale of Two Families: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Parental Human Capital Investment
About the SEA
The Southern Economic Association is one of the oldest economics associations in the United States, dating back to a conference held in Atlanta in November 1928. The Southern Economic Journal began publication in 1933 and is the eighth oldest American scholarly journal in economics. From its founding, the purpose of the Southern Economic Association has been to further the education of scholars and the public in economic affairs. Toward this end, it seeks to stimulate interest in and disseminate results of recent research in theory and applied economics.
The membership of the Southern Economic Association includes a diverse set of scholars, with a great range in their substantive interests and in their methods of inquiry. The annual conference and the Journal welcome submissions from all fields of economic research and from economists around the world.
One frequently-asked question is: What is Southern about the Southern Economic Association? Certainly, the annual conference is always held in a Southern location. Most of the editors of the Journal work at Southern institutions. Early conferences and Journal volumes featured many articles about the economic problems of the South. Models of convergence in economic growth are a recent development in economic analysis, but Southerners have lived through tremendous convergence since the Association’s founding. Thus, the South is fortunate to have lost much of its uniqueness. The founders of the Association would have been delighted by that. To quote from a history of the organization written in 1940 by Walter Matherly, its first president, “While it is regional in its membership, its interests as well as its annual programs extend beyond the region which it serves and encompass the nation.”
Since its modest origins in the early 20th century, the Southern Economic Association has grown into a truly global professional organization today. Membership and participation in its annual conference regularly attracts thousands of economists from more than 94 nations to share their interests in economic scholarship.