Text mining reveals new links between economic and political uncertainty
Sandra García-Uribe, Hannes Mueller and Carlos Sanz use text mining to quantify economic policy uncertainty in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century.
Topic Archive: Political Economy
To stay or to go: When news coverage shapes behavior
Timothy Besley, Thiemo Fetzer, and Hannes Mueller use two novel datasets to separate the effect of an event at tourist destinations from the coverage of that event at the home countries of tourists.
Political instability, state capacity and climate change in ancient times
Laura Mayoral and Ola Olsson explore early state development using Ancient Egypt as a laboratory.
The Politics of Distraction: Evidence of strategic timing from presidential executive orders
Ruben Durante and Milena Djourelova find that executive orders likely to generate negative publicity tend to be issued on the eve of days when other important events distract the media and the public.
