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 (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 next edition takes place on September 16th & 17th, 2024 (online). Submit your paper or extended abstract here until 4 August.

You can check out the programs of 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

• Generalized Topic Models, with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier

Teaching

Own Courses

• 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)