Léo Picard

Léo Picard

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

University of Basel

About me

I’m a doctoral student and assistant at the University of Basel within the Department of Public Economics. My research focuses on the effectiveness of the E.U. Emission Trading Scheme and its impacts on firms’ behaviors.

I also enjoy working with my colleagues from ETH Zürich in the Law, Economics, and Data Science group. More precisely, we study political rhetorics and the framing of public policies in the U.S. media.

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Interests
  • Public Economics
  • Climate Policy
  • Political Communication
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2021 - ongoing

    University of Basel

  • Pre-doc, NLP and ML, 2020 - 2021

    ETH Zürich

  • Master of Science in Economics, 2019

    University of Lausanne (HEC)

Research

Publications


Working papers


Work in progress

  • The Effect of Climate Policy on Productivity and Cost Pass-Through in the German Manufacturing Sector (with Beat Hintermann, Corrado Di Maria, Maja Žarković and Ulrich J. Wagner)
  • “Echoes of Anger in Democracy: Independent Campaign Expenditures And Attack Ads in U.S. Politics” (with Alois Stutzer and Patrick Balles)
  • “Revisiting Campaign Advertising Trends with Generative AI: an Application to Political Attacks” (single authored)

Teaching assistance

Economics of Public Policy

Every fall semester, Master level

Course catalog page


Seminars in Public and Environmental Economics

Every spring semester, Bachelor and Master levels

Bachelor course catalog pageMaster course catalog page (exceptionally in the fall semester)


Introduction to Python programming

Every start of the semester, all levels

Course catalog page - GitHub repository

Contact

Office

University of Basel
Faculty of Business and Economics
Peter Merian-Weg 6, office 4.40
4002 Basel, Switzerland

E-mail