Stephen Hansen is an expert on industrial economics, the study of firms and markets. He also studies macroeconomic topics such as monetary theory. He is a professor at the Imperial College Business School in London, England, and uses cutting-edge research techniques like machine-learning to gain economic insights.
In January, Professor Hansen presented in a seminar in Munich on new findings on the changes of the nature of the CEO job. Typically, firms are not open about their top employees and try to paint a positive picture of them towards the public.
Hansen and his co-authors circumvent this by analyzing job advertisements in a detailed fashion. For members of the International Doctorate Program “Evidence- Based Economics”, this presentation gave new insights into current state-of-the-art application of evidence- based economic research in a project that is not yet published.
Text: Peter Redler, International Doctorate Program "Evidence-Based Economics"
