TOMORROW, at 20:00, Evgeny Kanashevsky, an economist from Zalando, Economics Phd of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on our social networks.
At work, Zhenya is engaged in establishing causal relationships in online advertising using experimental and quasi-experimental methods and machine learning models.
Many of us will probably remember supply and demand curves from introductory economics courses. But it is unlikely that in these courses we were told that modern economics finds answers to difficult questions. Why are some countries rich and others poor? How does the legalization of abortion affect the crime rate? How much is a human life worth?
Modern economists have always based these answers on data, rigorous mathematics and, in the last 10 years, even machine learning models. This is why many companies create entire teams of economists to answer the non-trivial questions that business poses to them.
Zhenya will tell you what modern economists really do. Why they are hired by leading Western companies. And why this trend is likely to continue in the future and come to Russia.
Speech theses
- How modern economics differs from the mass perception of it
- Why economists answer all kinds of questions about human behavior
- 4 types of problems that economists in online business work on.
- Traveling through parallel universes or how economists differ from “normal” data scientists
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