RESEARCH

Research Interests

• Computational Text Classification
• Political Economy of Financial Markets
• Corporate Political Activity
• Policy Agenda Dynamics
• Economic Voting
• Formal Models of Authoritarian Politics
• Policy Process Theories

Dissertation

Policy Issue Attention Allocation Processes and Financial Markets

Issue attention allocation processes send important signals to markets about the policy priorities and policy change capacity of policymakers. Using legislative, executive and public issue attention data from advanced democracies, I analyze how stock markets react to issue attention allocation dynamics. I specifically investigate how issue attention levels, the diversity and stability of policy agendas affect stock market returns and volatility.