RESEARCH
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Who Captures the Windfall? Seat Allocation and Home Bias in Benefit-Sharing boards
Are directors who govern natural resources biased towards their home districts? The literature predicts that they will be but we argue that mixed-territorial seat allocation can attenuate directors’ incentives for home bias. When a regional director represents one community among several directors competing for a fixed budget, advocating for one’s own community is con- strained…
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Automated Detection of Emotion in Central Bank Communication: A Warning
(with Carola Binder)
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Council Checks of the Commission under the European Semester
(with Mark Hallerberg)
NEWS
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Who Captures the Windfall? Seat Allocation and Home Bias in Benefit-Sharing boards
Are directors who govern natural resources biased towards their home districts? The literature predicts that they will be but we argue that mixed-territorial seat allocation can attenuate directors’ incentives for home bias. When a regional director represents one community among several directors competing for a fixed budget, advocating for one’s own community is con- strained…
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Publication Alert
My recent research note with Carola Binder on the difficulties of using standard, off the shelf Large Language Models (LLM) and labeled data to study emotion in central bank communications is now out at the National Institute Economic Review. Our key insight is that central bank communication is both lexically and subjectively difficult for people…
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Publication Alert
My paper with Dominik Duell and Will Lowe on ECB communication and support for the EU is forthcoming at the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. This journal is becoming one of my favourite journals to read so I am so excited that this paper finally landed here. We show that while people are persuaded…