Léo Picard

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

University of Basel

About me

I’m a doctoral student and assistant at the University of Basel, Department of Public Economics.
My research focuses on the effect of climate policy on firm behaviors.

I am also working in political economy as a doctoral research affiliate at ETH Zürich, Law, Economics and Data Science group. More precisely, I study the interplay between media and politics, how language and framing information affects public policy preferences.

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Interests

Public Economics
Political Economy
Text as Data

Education

Auditor training in NLP and ML, 2020-21

ETH Zürich
Master of Science in Economics, 2019

University of Lausanne (HEC)

Data & Graphics

Contributions to the United Nations regular budget

U.S. State of the State transcripts

Research

Working papers

Cable News and COVID-19 Vaccine Compliance, with Christoph Goessmann and Matteo Pinna

Policy papers

Slany A., Chérel-Robson M., Picard L. (2020), Illicit financial flows and sustainable development: Panel-data evidence for Africa. Background paper for the Economic Development in Africa Report 2020, UNCTAD.

Teaching

Tutor - Economics of Public Policy

Fall 2021 - University of Basel

Course catalog page – ADAM page – Interactive public goods game

Tutor - Big Data for Public Policy

Spring 2021 - ETH Zürich

Course catalog page – Moodle page – GitHub repository

Contact

Office

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

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