Christopher Rauh

Associate Editor at Economic Journal

CEPR, IZA, and HCEO Affiliate

Co-director of Graduate Studies (IDEA Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Steering committee member at Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Cambridge

Co-founder and co-director of conflictforecast.org and EconAI.

Before moving to Barcelona I was Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge, where I designed and founded the Master's program in Economics and Data Science. I was also a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge where I was Director of Studies. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal.

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Research fields: Political Economy, Labor Economics, Data Science, Geoeconomics, Machine Learning, AI, Media

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Bio:

I am an ATRAE Distinguished Researcher at the Institute of Economic Analysis (CSIC) and Co-director of Graduate Studies at IDEA (International Doctorate in Economic Analysis at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). I am also Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics and a Research Affiliate at CEPR, HCEO, and IZA. Before moving to Barcelona I was Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge where I designed and founded the MPhil in Economics and Data Science. Before that I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal. For my research I analyze unstructured data using machine learning and AI. I teach courses on the use of AI and data science in Economics at the UAB, CEMFI, and the Bank of England and the Central Bank of Colombia.

My fields are Labor Economics and Political Economy. I am co-founder and co-director of conflictforecast.org and EconAI, and have conducted multiple projects with the FCDO, German Foreign Office, OECD, and IMF. I am Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and have published in Economics and Political Science journals, such as American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of European Economic Association, and Journal of Public Economics. My work has been featured widely across the media including The Guardian, Washington Post, the Economist, the BBC, FAZ, and Der Spiegel. I am listed amongst the top 1% of Economists in terms of research output in the last ten years.

Conflictforecast.org

We present monthly updates on conflict and violence risk across the globe at: https://conflictforecast.org. Here a presentation for a broader audience from a presentation at the Center of Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh.

Predicted conflict risk over the next 12 months

Economic Policy Uncertainty

Using millions of newspaper articles we re-construct and adjust the usual EPU measure for crowding out of political and economics news during conflict. We provide monthly updates on 192 countries at: https://econai.org/projects/EPU.html.

Covid Inequality Project

We had collected data using multiple survey waves across countries and were the first to document that the outbreak of COVID-19 had a large and unequal impact on workers and mental health. Please find details about our work here: covidinequalityproject.com

Press coverage: Telegraph,Independendent, Mirage News, The Guardian , BBC Newsnight , voxeu.org , Wired , The Times , Washington Post, ... click here for more

Presentation for a broader audience: Mainz (in German)

Contact:

Avinguda de l'Eix Central, Campus UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain

Email: cr542 [a t] cam.ac.uk

Phone: +34 935 806 612

Web of Science Researcher ID: OHT-4344-2025

ORCID Nr: 0000-0001-6353-1640

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-rauh-b518175/