Video: Independence and Quality of Mass Media in the Internet Age (ERC Starting Grant)
Ruben Durante discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
Topic Archive: Political Economy
The survival and demise of the State
Joan-Maria Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner build a theoretical model to shed light on the dynamics and incentives at play among disputing groups in a State.
Can machine learning help policymakers detect conflict?
Hannes Mueller and Christopher Rauh present a new method of predicting conflict through news topics which are generated automatically from a topic model.
Your voice, your vote
Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto explore the political consequences when voters underestimate the importance of circumstances and overstate the importance of enduring personal characteristics.
