Federico Trombetta

Contact details
Telephone:
Email: F dot Trombetta at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S0.77 Social Sciences Building
Research interests
I am a PhD student at Warwick Economics. In my research, I use economic theory to study the effects of information on political decisions. My main research interests are at the interception between Political Economy and Media Economics. In a nutshell, I am interested in...
- Political agency models with endogenous information acquisition:
- Rational inattention & political accountability;
- Accountability & media capture;
- Political Economy and Media Economics:
- Media competition & quality of journalism;
- Media competition & capture;
- Political Economy and Economic History:
- Institutions, political selection & accountability in Medieval Europe;
Supervisors
Publications
When the light shines too much: rational inattention and pandering - Early view, Journal of Public Economic Theory
Working papers
The Price of Silence: Media Competition, Capture, and Electoral Accountability
The Newsroom Dilemma (with Ayush Pant) - NEW [Media coverage: EEA press release]
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of Benedict's Rule in Medieval England (with Domenico Rossignoli) - NEW
Work in progress
Optimal Innovation time off (with Ayush Pant) - abstract
A Model of Populist Trap (with Helios Herrera)
Teaching experience
- PH336: Principles of Political Economy: Economics & Politics
Affiliations
- Political Economy and Public Economics research group
- Centre for Research in Economic Theory and its Applications (CRETA) research fellow
'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings