Working papers

Facing the Hard Truth: Evidence from Climate Change Ignorance (with Pamela Campa)

Forthcoming or Published Papers

A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory (with Adam Szeidl), American Economic Review, Vol. 115, No. 9 (September, 2025), 3217-47. 

Door to door campaigning in an electoral autocracy: Evidence from Hungary (with Bence Hamrak and Gabor Simonovits), Journal of Politics, Accepted March, 2025

Equilibrium communication in political scandals (with Bence Hamrak and Gabor Simonovits), European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 85, (December, 2024): 102580 

Why Politicians Won't Apologize: Communication Effects in the Aftermath of Sex Scandals (with Bence Hamrak, Gabor Simonovits, and Alex Rusnak), British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 4 (October, 2024), 1486-1495. 

Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February, 2024), 117-160. Online appendix

Algorithmic selection and supply of political news on Facebook (with Marcel Garz) , Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 62 (March, 2023): 101020. 

Media Capture through Favor Exchange  (with Adam Szeidl), Econometrica, Vol. 89, No. 1 (January, 2021), 281–310. Online appendix 

Book chapters

Media capture and belief in alternative realities, in Razin, A (eds), The Transition to Illiberal Democracy Economic Drivers and Consequences, CEPR Press, Paris & London. 2024