Professor Timothy Christensen awarded European Research Council (ERC) Grant

Professor Christensen will use the grant to explore his ambitious research agenda on "Econometrics for New Data: Theory, Methods, and Applications”.

Research Summary

Recently, there has been an explosion in the use of unstructured data (e.g., text, images, etc) across all applied fields of economics. However, the methodologies employed have been largely ad hoc and lacking in theoretical guarantees.  The purpose of the grant is to develop new statistical theory and new methodology to guide the use of unstructured data in quantitative economic modeling. As such, it has great potential to improve the credibility and reliability of empirical work using unstructured data.   

You can find out more about Tim and his research at tmchristensen.com

About the grant

The ERC awarded grants to 308 top scientists and scholars from across Europe as part of its EU Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.

The fund is worth €627 million [£547 million] on total of which more than €12 million [£10 million] was awarded to UCL researchers.