About me

My research covers topics related to the media, algorithms, and their relation to political and market institutions. Methodologically, I specialize in developing new approaches to quantify politically and economically relevant concepts from unstructured data such as text.

In fall 2024, I will join the Paris School of Economics as an Assistant Professor in Economics.

In January 2023, I joined ETH Zurich as a Post-Doctoral researcher, working at the Center for Law & Economics with Elliott Ash. I completed my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of St.Gallen (summa cum laude, 2023), supervised by Roland Hodler. I visited the Paris School of Economics in 2021/2022, hosted by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. In 2019, I visited ETH Zurich, hosted by Elliott Ash.

See my CV for more information.

News

I am co-organizing the Monash-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data Workshop series, together with Elliott Ash and Sascha O. Becker. The most recent edition took place on September 16th & 17th, 2024 (online). See the program here. The next edition will take place in spring 2025. To stay updated, please fill out this registration form.

You can check out the programs of all past editions.

Research

Publications

• Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too, with Noémie Zurlinden – Journal of Public Economics (2022)

• Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives, with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier – Political Analysis (2023)

  • Our Python package relatio extracts narrative statements from text, see on GitHub or PyPI

Working Papers

• Who Owns the Online Media?, with Ulrich Matter – R&R at AEJ: Economic Policy

• Media Slant is Contagious, with Sergio Galletta and Elliott Ash – R&R at the Economic Journal

• Is Propaganda Front-Page News?

• Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints, with Dominik Stammbach, Eunjung Cho, Caglar Gulcehre, and Elliott Ash

Work in Progress

• Algorithms, Political Attitudes, and Well-Being, with Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya – Swiss National Science Foundation Grant No. 100018_215554

• Neural Latent Variable Models for Unstructured Data, with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier

Teaching

Own Courses

• Upcoming: Media Economics (2024) – Paris School of Economics

• The Use of AI in Economic Research (short course; 2024) – University of Hohenheim

• Computational Social Science with Images and Audio (2023) – ETH Zurich

• Text-as-Data (2023) – LMU Munich

• Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, see our location-specific GitHub (2021) – University of St.Gallen and ETH Zurich

Teaching Assistance (University of St.Gallen)

• Failed States and Nationbuilding (2021-2023)

• Public Economics (2017-2022)

• Data Science (2019-2021)

• Political Economics (2020)

• Introduction to Microeconomics (2017-2018)