Scholar
Philine Widmer
Google Scholar ID: 1cyoOOYAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Paris School of Economics
Citations & Impact
Citations
175
H-index
4
i10-index
4
Publications
8
Co-authors
12
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives' in Political Analysis (2023) with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier; developed the Python package 'relatio' for extracting narrative statements from text.
- Published 'Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too' in Journal of Public Economics (2022) with Noémie Zurlinden.
- Published 'Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints' in EMNLP (2024) with Dominik Stammbach, Eunjung Cho, Caglar Gulcehre, and Elliott Ash.
- Working paper 'Media Slant is Contagious' conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal.
- Working paper 'Who Owns the Online Media?' under revision and resubmission at AEJ: Economic Policy.
- Working paper 'The Political Effects of X’s Recommender Algorithm' under revision and resubmission at Nature, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation Grant No. 100018_215554.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Economics.
- Previously worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and the University of St.Gallen.
- Co-organizes the MPWZ-CEPR Text-as-Data Workshop series with Elliott Ash and Sascha O. Becker.
- Co-organizes the Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar (PEPES) with colleagues from PSE and Sciences Po.
- Teaches courses including 'The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence', 'Media Economics', 'The Use of AI in Economic Research', 'Computational Social Science with Images and Audio', and 'Text-as-Data' at various institutions.
