Short Courses by Professors from Overseas 2026

Fall Semester, 2026

Text as Data （经济学讲座六，ECON80008）

Instructor: Carlo Birkholz, Assistant Professor, University of Göttingen

Carlo Birkholz | University of Göttingen

TA: Zhenjie Yin, 24300680004@m.fudan.edu.cn

Teaching Schedule:

Week 1 · Mon 7 Sept, 18:30–21:05

Week 1 · Tue 8 Sept, 08:00–09:40

Week 2 · Mon 14 Sept, 18:30–21:05

Week 2 · Tue 15 Sept, 08:00–09:40

Week 3 · Mon 21 Sept, 18:30–21:05

Week 3 · Tue 22 Sept, 08:00–09:40

Week 4 · Mon 28 Sept, 18:30–21:05

Classroom: H6504, Handan Campus, Fudan University

Instructor’s Bio:

Professor Carlo Birkholz is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Development Economics and Global Political Economy at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He also serves as a Junior Research Associate at ZEW Mannheim, a Joachim-Herz Add-on Fellow, a member of the Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), and an external affiliate of the Norwegian Centre for Taxation (NoCeT). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim, and his dissertation was awarded third prize in the KfW Award for Practice-Oriented Development Research.

His general research interests lie in the fields of Development Economics, Political Economy, and Public Finance. In particular, he enjoys combining innovative data sources—such as satellite imagery, household electricity consumption from smart meters, and web-scraped data—with machine learning techniques including random forests and large language models, in order to address economic questions that are otherwise difficult to study.