News
Our paper Opportunistic not Optimal Policy is accepted at CPS
19 May 2020Economists have long argued that central banks ran by technocrats have greater independence from the government.
Crafting Consensus
2 May 2020I am so excited to say that my book is finally available for preorder on the Oxford University Press website.
Workshop at the Central Bank of Ireland
16 January 2020I'm delighted to be co-hosting a workshop entitled "Opportunities and Challenges in Economic Policy Communications" at the Central Bank of Ireland on January 17. Follow my hashtag #CBAficionado. Workshop program is here.
IPES 2019 Best Paper Award
29 November 2019So pleased that our paper "Central Bank Communication as Public Opinion? Experimental Evidence" was selected for the David A Lake best paper presented at IPES 2018.
Summer School at Waseda
2 September 2019So happy to be teaching at Waseda's Summer Research Course in Tokyo, Japan (September 9 to September 20).
Quantitative Text Analysis
6 August 2019Another fabulous cohort of excited students learning QTA at the summer school at Essex.
A Textual Taylor Rule now out at PSRM
20 September 2018You can find it here!
EITM Europe
26 June 2018EITM Europe 2018 is underway in the beautiful loction of Torino, Italy. The first module on statistics from June 25 until June 27 (and the math refresher from June 23 until June 24) will be taught by James Lo (University of Southern California), the theoretical modul
SFB 884 Phase 3 Awarded!
25 November 2017The collaborative research center SFB 884 was informed of its renewal for 4 more years. I was awarded a ``Mercator Fellowship'' by the German Science Foundation for my collaborations with projects C4 and B6.
Documenting the Unauthorized in Economics and Politics
22 September 2017We are thrilled to announce that our paper ``Documenting the Unauthorized: Political Responses to Unauthorized Immigration'' is now published at Economics and Politics.
London School of Economics Blog Post
22 September 2016My research with Mark Hallerberg was highlighted by the LSE in the blog post ``An uneven playing field: Larger EU member states receive weaker Commission oversight than smaller states''
Washington Post's @monkeycageblog reports on the EU and fiscal policy
4 May 2016See our research on the euro crisis highlighted in my recent Monkey Cage post
Washington Post's @monkeycageblog reports on immigration and elections
17 March 2016See our research on immigration highlighted in my recent Monkey Cage post
IPE at the LSE
27 January 2016I'm excited to be presenting a chapter from my fortcoming book, ``Crafting Consensus'' at the LSE's IPE Workshop in London on January 29, 2016. You can read a paper version of the talk here
Our paper Instability in the Stability and Growth Pact is accepted at CPS
14 December 2015Ever wondered if it was powerful Member States or weaker Member States that weakened the Stability and Growth Pact? We find that Large Member States such as Germany and France as well as Euroskeptic Member States helped to erode the watchdog function of the European
Documenting the Unauthorized: Political Responses to Unauthorized Immigration
19 June 2015Our paper Documenting the Unauthorized: Political Responses to Unauthorized Immigration (new working title) to be presented at the inaugural Virtual IPES. Please listen in and give us your feedback.
Estimating Central Bank Preferences paper to be presented in San Francisco
15 June 2015Our paper ``Estimating Central Bank Prefernces'' was selected for the 2015 APSA Pre-Conference on Political Communication, ``#Disruption: Political Communication in a Digital Age.'' The 13th annual Pre-Conference on will be held Wednesday, September 2, 2015, at the University of San Francisco in
Monetary Policy and Central Banking
20 February 2015``Esimating Central Bank Preferences'' presented at Monetary Policy and Central Banking: Historical analysis and contemporary approaches conference at Princeton University, February 6-7, 2015.