About me

I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of St.Gallen. My research covers topics in political, media, and development economics. I am particularly interested in bringing natural language processing techniques to applied economics research.

My Ph.D. supervisor is Roland Hodler. I visited the Paris School of Economics for the academic year 2021/2022, hosted by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. I visited ETH Zurich in 2019, hosted by Elliott Ash.

Research

Publications

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

Revisions Requested

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

Teaching

Undergraduate level

• Public Economics (2017-2022)
• Data Handling: Import, Cleaning and Visualisation (2019-2021)
• Introduction to Microeconomics (2017-2018)

Graduate level

• Failed States (2021-2022)
• Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, see our GitHub (2021)
• Political Economics (2020)