Near-Real Time Analysis of War and Economic Activity during Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Prof Zhukov will discuss his recent paper, titled Near-Real Time Analysis of War and Economic Activity during Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. In this paper introduces near-real time data on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and uses these data to investigate the short-term impact of occupation and violence on local economic activity. The data project VIINA (Violent Incident Information from News Articles) parses news reports from Ukrainian and Russian media, geo-references them, and classifies them into standard event categories (e.g. artillery shelling) through machine learning.