Council Checks of the Commission under the European Semester
(with Mark Hallerberg)
Research
Central Bank Communication as Public Opinion? Experimental Evidence
(with Dominik Duell and Will Lowe)
Divided Committees and Strategic Vagueness
(with Colin Krainin)
News
New paper at European Journal of Political Economy
25 May 2022Forthcoming paper at EJPE, coauthored with Colin Krainin, examines the relationship between Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) design and policy communications. Using a formal model, the paper ranks shows that different committee types vary according to their level of strategic vaguness. Importantly, the model predicts that divided committees (those with oppositional members or factions) communicate more precisely than those whose members are all in agreement.
The Stability and Growth Pact after the European Semester (JCMS, 2021)
7 December 2021New paper (with Mark Hallerberg) published at JCMS. We examine the determinants of the Council of Ministers's editing of the European Commission recommendations to Member States after the introduction of the European Semester in the period 2011–18. Unlike previous work, we find little evidence of a systematic relationship between euroscepticism and textual editing.
EITM Europe 2021 Text As Data: Theory and Application
27 January 2021The program provides an introduction to the most recent developments in quantitative textual analysis and with a particular focus on linking applications with theory. Free participation, subject to conditions, 14 June to 25 June 2021 on an online platform. See the program here