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 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 (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.

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 – Accepted at Political Analysis (2023)

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

Working Papers

• Media Slant is Contagious, with Sergio Galletta and Elliott Ash

• Who Owns the Online Media?, with Ulrich Matter

Work in Progress

• Is Propaganda Front-Page News?

• Algorithms, Political Attitudes, and Well-Being, with Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Teaching

• Text-as-Data (2023)
• Public Economics (2017-2022)
• Failed States (2021-2022)
• Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, see our GitHub (2021)
• Data Science (2019-2021)
• Political Economics (2020)
• Introduction to Microeconomics (2017-2018)