[VCEE Seminar] VCEE Seminar with Felix Chopra - Invitation, May 24

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Dear members and friends of the VCEE,

You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Friday May 24, 2024, from
10:30 to 12:00 hrs Vienna time. 

The seminar takes place in Hörsaal 17 (2nd floor) at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz
1.

We will have one speaker: Felix Chopra (University of Copenhagen)

Webpage: https://www.felixchopra.com/

Here is more information about the talk:

 

Title: Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI (with Ingar Haaland)

 

Abstract:

Qualitative interviews are one of the fundamental tools of empirical social
science research and give individuals the opportunity to explain how they
understand and interpret the world, allowing researchers to capture detailed
and nuanced insights into complex phenomena. However, qualitative interviews
are seldom used in economics and other disciplines inclined toward
quantitative data analysis, likely due to concerns about limited
scalability, high costs, and low generalizability. In this paper, we
introduce an AI-assisted method to conduct semi-structured interviews. This
approach retains the depth of traditional qualitative research while
enabling large-scale, cost-effective data collection suitable for
quantitative analysis. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach with
a large-scale data collection to understand the stock market participation
puzzle. Our 395 interviews allow for quantitative analysis that we
demonstrate yields richer and more robust conclusions compared to
qualitative interviews with traditional sample sizes as well as to survey
responses to a single open-ended question. We also demonstrate high
interviewee satisfaction with the AI-assisted interviews. Human coding of
the interviews shows that the AI interviewer consistently asks high-quality
questions that align closely with human judgement. Our novel AI-assisted
approach bridges the divide between qualitative and quantitative data
analysis and substantially lowers the barriers and costs of conducting
qualitative interviews at scale.

 

 

If you are interested in meeting after the seminar (meeting slots of 30’)
you can register via this link:

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/kmUKmgWUb8rk473L

Best regards,

Sylvia

 

Sylvia Vosatka

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Department of Economics

University of Vienna

Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1

1090 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43 1 4277 37408

 

 

 

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