PhD candidate Albert Jan Hummel has interviewed Guido Imbens, the Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Guido Imbens taught the 2018 Tinbergen Institute Econometrics lectures on May 30 – June 1. Most famous for his work on developing methods to draw causal inference, he is currently also very much interested in using machine learning techniques. Naturally, the lectures covered both topics.
Guido Imbens is one of the most authoritative econometrists in the world. After studying econometrics in Rotterdam, he continued his career in the USA. Imbens is best known for having developed methods that produce an impartial measure of the impact of a policy on the economy. Policymakers and researchers use these methods to predict whether it is actually helpful to retrain redundant workers for new jobs, for example. More recently, Imbens has teamed with researchers at Facebook and Amazon to study artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Read the entire interview on the website of the Tinbergen Institute, 15 June 2018