Month: October 2018

Fall Seminar Series: November 2, 2018 – Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State – “Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning”

October 30, 2018

Friday, November 2, 2018 3:30 p.m. – Sirrine 302 Join us in listening to the Department of Economics’ guest speaker, Spencer Banzhaf, as he talks about “Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning.”  Banzhaf_Mangum_10-28-18 hsb

Fall Seminar – Joshua Tucker, NYU, October 19, 2018 – “Trumping Hate on Twitter: Measuring the prevalence of online hate speech, with an application to the 2016 U.S. election”

October 8, 2018

Friday, October 19, 2018 — 1:30 p.m. ~ 128 Sirrine Trumping Hate on Twitter: Measuring the prevalence of online hate speech, with an application to the 2016 U.S. election”  Abstract: Despite a growing body of research devoted to defining and detecting online hate speech and extremist rhetoric, the existing scientific literature lacks a systematic framework for assessing […]