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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear members and friends of the VCEE,<br><br>You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Friday May 24, 2024, from 10:30 to 12:00 hrs Vienna time. <br><br>The seminar takes place in Hörsaal 17 (2<sup>nd</sup> floor) at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.<br><br>We will have one speaker: <b>Felix Chopra</b> (University of Copenhagen)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Webpage: </span><a href="https://www.felixchopra.com/"><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://www.felixchopra.com/</span></a><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Here is more information about the talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Title: <span class=jtukpc>Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI (with Ingar Haaland)</span></span></b><span class=jtukpc><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span class=jtukpc><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>If you are interested in meeting after the seminar (meeting slots of 30’) you can register via this link:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/kmUKmgWUb8rk473L"><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/kmUKmgWUb8rk473L</span></a><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sylvia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>Sylvia Vosatka<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>-------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>Department of Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>University of Vienna<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>1090 Vienna, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'>Phone: +43 1 4277 37408<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>