Research

Projects: 19th century press

Data paper : for a comprehensive and harmonised dataset of French 19th century press (1789-1914)

Coming soon. Please reach out if you are curious to know where I stand!

At the origin of public opinion: what made possible the Revolutionary political press

Coming soon

Press freedom restrictions effects on self-censorship

Coming soon. Collaboration with Benoît de Courson.

Projects: Miscellaneous

Explaining the Matthew effect using exogenous knowledge demand shocks: A study of biomedical research using epidemics as natural experiments

We argue that the citation-based market adjustment mechanism is imperfect and subject to a number of frictions, and that these are at the source of the “Matthew effect”. Such “friction” happens because the intrinsic quality of a scientific article is not directly accessible. The citing researcher must make a choice based on a set of criteria (signals) that are correlated with, but not identical to, the quality of the articles she wishes to cite.

The long & short term economic & political implications of the 1870-73 Prussian occupation

Coming soon. With Cédric Chambru

Publications

Next decade. One day. Maybe.