Duiyi Dai (Claire)

Hi, I am a Macroeconomist and Data Scientist, currently in my fourth year as a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Birmingham. I am supervised by Prof. Robert Elliott and Dr. Wanyu Chung.

My research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics, environmental economics, political economy, machine learning, and deep learning.

You can find my CV here.

I am on the 2024-2025 job market and will be available for interviews.

Selected Works in Progress

“Measuring Brexit Uncertainty: A Machine Learning and Textual Analysis Approach” (Corresponding author, with Wanyu Chung, Robert Elliott, and Christoph Görtz) CEPR Discussion Paper 17410; Latest Version (Here); Project Webpage (Here); Policy Brief (Here);

“Measuring Visual Media bias during Brexit Vote: A Computer Vision and Machine Learning Approach” (Corresponding author, with Wanyu Chung and Robert Elliott)

Teaching

Invited Instructor, Textual Analysis and Machine Learning with Python (PhD), AIB UKI Conference
2024

Teaching Assistant, Global Economy (Undergraduates), University of Birmingham
2022, 2023, 2024

Teaching Assistant, International Trade Theory & Policy (Undergraduates), University of Birmingham
2021

Teaching Assistant, Econometrics with Stata (Undergraduates), University of Birmingham
2021, 2022