Seminar in Makroökonomik Detail

Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Göran Kauermann, Sebastian Wichert, Victor Tuekam

Mobile phone data are ubiquitous today, as almost everyone carries a mobile device in their pocket. This generates huge data trails that provide almost unbiased information about people’s mobility and location. These data have been used, for example, in the COVID-19 years to assess the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on mobility patterns and firm location decisions as well as for traffic planning or academic research.

Under the umbrella of the BERD Academy, the workshop aims to bring together data scientists and researchers working on mobile phone data as well as related flow, geo-spatial and mobility data to address methodological as well as applied research questions from sociology, economics, or related fields. This includes the pre-processing of massive data, the restructuring of data into mobility data, or the detection of local clusters, to name just a few possible applications. The workshop provides an open forum for current research and new ideas on data analysis.

Submission/Participation

Due to limited seat capacity and in order to keep the event interactive, applications for presentations will be given preference over requests for attendance only. We strongly encourage submissions from early-career researchers, including PhD students and practitioners. Contributions that are methodological or empirical in nature are welcome provided they use some kind of mobile phone data. While extended abstracts or early-stage drafts will be taken into consideration, complete papers will be given preference.

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