Maria PETROVA is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG) and a Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. She is a Research Fellow of CEPR and Research Affiliate of CESifo. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. She has been elected to the Council of the European Economic Association for the 2019-2023 term.

She is an applied microeconomist whose focus is on information economics, political economy, and development. She seeks to understand how information flows affect complex links between economic and political phenomena. Her recent research is focused on the political economy of traditional and social media, and on the determinants and implications of individual political donations. In 2018, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism.

Maria PETROVA will present a paper, joint with Gregor SCHUBERT, Pinar YILDIRIMI, and Bledi TASKA, at the next PEPES Seminar via Zoom, on the theme:

Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences (read abstract, PDF 25.31 KB)

More about Maria PETROVA and her research

Location: Zoom
Time: 12:30 PM