About
I am a fourth-year PhD Candidate in Economics at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Davide Romelli and Nicola Fontana. I am a Research Affiliate of IM-TCD (International Macro - TCD), and TRiSS (Trinity Research in Social Sciences).
My research interests lie in empirical Political Economy with a specific focus on Media Economics. I employ advanced text analysis techniques, including BERT-based models and large language models (LLMs).
I will be visiting MIT Sloan from January 2025 hosted by Professor Charles Angelucci.
I hold a Master's degree in Economics from University of Bologna and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Marche Polytechnic University.
You can find my CV here. Email: pograxhm@tcd.ie
Research
Working Papers
- Man Bites Dog: Editorial Choices and Biases in the Reporting of Weather Events - with
Nicola Mastrorocco,
Arianna Ornaghi, and
Stephane Wolton CEPR Discussion Paper (2023)
Every day, editors of media outlets decide what is news and what is not. We unpack the process of news production by looking at the share of newscasts devoted to weather events by local TV stations in the United States. We document that coverage increases with the severity of the weather event that day. We also uncover that stations operating in Democratic-leaning markets devote more time to extreme weather events and mention climate change more than outlets in Republican-leaning markets. We make sense of these publication and presentation biases with a stylised model of news production and consumption.
Work in Progress
- The Unseen Agenda: Do Television Broadcasters Reward Controversy?
- Uncovering the Hidden Side of Central Bank Communication: Evidence from Social Media - with Donato Masciandaro, Conor Parle and Davide Romelli
- Scoring Goals, Spreading Hate: Drivers of Hate Crime in Germany - with Francesco Barilari, and Enrico Cavallotti
Research Experience
- Oct 2024 - ongoing Research Consultant for the United Nations
Large digitization and variable extraction of South African Laws Gazettes using advanced text region detection algorithms and Named Entity Recognition (NER) models.
- July 2024 - Oct 2024 Research Assistant for Dr. J. Zimmermann (TCD) and Prof. M. Suesse (TCD)
Advanced NLP techniques for digitization and variable extraction from historical Russian Revolutionary Biographies.
- Nov 2023 - March 2024 Research Assistant for Prof. D. Romelli (TCD) and Prof. D. Masciandaro (Bocconi)
Fine-tuning of a BERT-based zero-shot classifier to detect Monetary Policy related texts.
Teaching
- Spring 2022 Introduction to Macroeconomics - Undergraduate
- Fall 2022 Introduction to Microeconomics - Undergraduate
- Spring 2024 Statistics - Undergraduate