About | Eryk Walczak

I am Eryk Walczak ( /vʌltʃʌk/ ), a Senior Research Data Scientist at the Bank of England. My research interests involve using novel datasets and advanced analytics to study the state of the economy.

I completed a PhD in the Department of Experimental Psychology at University College London where I worked on cognitive neuroscience of language (i.e. how brain is processing speech perception and production).

You can find some of my projects on this site and on R-bloggers.
Opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.

Publications / Working Papers

Economics

Neuroscience / Psychology

Walczak, E. (2020). Assessing brain activity related to speech production and perception using tonal stimuli (Unpublished PhD thesis). University College London, UK.
Walczak, E. (2018). Speech Production. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hardwicke, T.E., Jameel, L., Jones, M., Walczak, E.J., & Weinberg, L.M. (2014). Only Human: Scientists, Systems, and Suspect Statistics. Opticon1826 (16):25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/opt.ch
Walczak, E., Zhang, J., Schoof, T., Tuomainen, J., & Howell, P. (2014). Cortical inhibition of the brainstem frequency following response in falling and rising tone production. Proceedings from ISSP 2014 The 10th International Seminar on Speech Production. Cologne, Germany.
Skatova, A., Leygue, C., Spence, A., Bedwell, B., Walczak, E., & Ferguson, E. (2012). Communal Energy Displays: The Role of Emotions in Environmental Decisions. Proceedings from Digital Futures 2012 Conference, Aberdeen, UK.

Presentations

Evolution of SME cash flows and cash balances during the Covid-19 crisis. 9th Summer Workshop of Narodowy Bank Polski. 29 June 2021.
The Language of Rules. The Machine Learning at Central Banks conference at Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. 16 April 2021.
Enhancing central bank communications using simple and relatable information (presented by Nida Broughton). Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2021. 12 April 2021.
The Language of Rules. Big Data and Economic Forecasting 2021, The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. 17 March 2021.
Using R to study banking regulations (webinar). WhyR 2020. 26 September 2020.
The Language of Rules: Textual Complexity in Banking Reforms. ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2020. 17 September 2020.
The Language of Rules (presented by James Brookes). EEA Congress. 27 August 2020.
The Language of Rules: Textual Complexity in Banking Reforms. King’s College London. 5 February 2020.
The Language and Structure of Rules: Measuring Textual Complexity in Bank Regulation. London School of Economics (Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation). 24 September 2019
Textual Complexity in Bank Regulation. Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics. 1-2 October 2019
Enhancing central bank communications using simple and relatable information (video and interview), Annual Research Conference – Central Bank Communications: From Mystery to Transparency, Kyiv, Ukraine. 23-24 May 2019
Textual complexity in bank regulation – New Analytical Tools and Techniques for Economic Policymaking, OECD, 15-16 April 2019 (see the presentation by Rajan Patel; starts at 2h39min)
New methods and advanced analytics at the Bank of England – 8th ESRC Research Methods Festival 2018, University of Bath, 3 July 2018
Polyglots’ Brains – Neuroscience and Language Learning. Presented at Polyglot Gathering 2014. Berlin, Germany.