Carlo Rasmus Schwarz
Biography
Carlo Rasmus Schwarz is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University.
Schwarz has written about political polarization, the link between social media and hate crimes, how social media affects elections, the politics of tariffs, and international scientific cooperation.
He has taught interdisciplinary courses on politics & economics and the foundations of economics.
Research Talks
Education
PhD Economics, University of Warwick
MRes Economics, University of Warwick
BSc Economics, University of Mannheim
Doctoral Dissertation
Essays in Political Economy
Doctoral Supervisors
Fabian Waldinger & Mirko Draca
Institutions
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
External Associate, CAGE Research Centre, University of Warwick
Fields
Political Economy
Media Studies
Topics
Political Polarization
Social Media and Hate Crimes
The Impact of Social Media on Elections
International Scientific Cooperation, Global Flows of Scientific Knowledge, & Their Affects on Scientific Progress
The Politics of Tariffs
Publications
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science. Quarterly Journal of Economics 133(2), pp. 927–991, 2018. (with Alessandro Iaria, and Fabian Waldinger)
ldagibbs: A Command for Topic Modeling in Stata using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Stata Journal. 18(1), pp. 101–117, 2018.
lsemantica: A Stata Command for Text Similarity based on Latent Semantic Analysis. Stata Journal. 19(1), pp. 129–142, 2019.
Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime. Journal of the European Economic Association. 19(4), pp. 2131–2167, 2021. (with Karsten Müller)
Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump’s Trade Wars. Economic Journal. 131(636), pp. 1717–1741, 2021. (with Thiemo Fetzer)
WORKING PAPERS
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment. (with Karsten Müller)
How Polarized are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground-Up. (with Mirko Draca)
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States. (with Thomas Fujiwara, and Karsten Müller)
Visual Stereotypes in News Media. (with Elliott Ash, Ruben Durante, and Maria Grebenshchikova)
Courses Taught
Economics & Politics - Bocconi University.
Foundations of Economic Sciences - Bocconi University.
Reading Group in Economics - Bocconi University.
Refereeing
Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Politics, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resoruces, European Journal of Political Economy, Applied Soft Computing, Stata Journal, British Journal of Political Science
Other Professional Experience
Teaching Assistant. Economics I (EC107). University of Warwick.
Research Manager. Economics Department, University of Warwick. (Professor Fabian Waldinger). July 2014 - October 2016.
Internship at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Central Office, Department of Banking and Financial Supervision. June 2013 - September 2013.
Research Assistant at the Centre for European Economic Research. Department of Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy. September 2012 - June 2013.
Internship at the Centre for European Economic Research. Department of Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy. July 2012 - August 2012.
Seminar & Conference Presentations
December 2019: Workshop on Political Economy Queen Mary
November 2019: ENS Lyon: Public and Political Economy Day
November 2019: Seminar at Centre for Economic Performance (LSE)
October 2019: Empirics and Methods in Economics Conference 2019
August 2019: European Economic Association Conference Manchester
August 2019: Galatina Summer Meetings 2019
August 2019: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
August 2019: Young Economists Symposium at Columbia University
July 2019: NBER Summer Institute: IT and Digitization
June 2019: Workshop on Political Economy IEB Barcelona
May 2019: Transatlantic Doctoral Conference LBS
March 2019: Royal Economic Society Conference Warwick
March 2019: Spring Meeting of Young Economist Brussels
October 2018: Seminar on Online Hate Speech at Oxford Internet Institute
October 2018: Workshop on Political Economy at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
August 2018: European Economic Association Conference Cologne
September 2017: Leverhulme Bridges Annual Conference
Other Invited Talks
October 2019: International Dialogue on Migration in Geneva: International Organization for Migration
June 2019: International Metropolis Conference 2019 Ottawa: “The Promise of Migration – Inclusion, Economic Growth and Global Cooperation”
June 2019: Council of Europe intercultural cities event in Turin: “Fighting Discrimination and Hate Speech: Is Interculturalism the Solution?”
February 2019: Conference on Online Hate Speech in Kristiansand (Norway) as part of the “En By For Alle” week organized by the municipality
December 2018: Workshop on “Combating Online Hate Speech” at Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law in Cooperation with Yad Vashem and the Israel Democracy Institute
April 2018: Crown Prosecution Service (Birmingham, UK) as part of the Local Scrutiny and Involvment Panel on Hate Crimes
Awards
CAGE Research Award (2500£) for research on the importance of personal networks for technology adoption. September 2019.
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship: Bridges Program for PhD. September 2016 - March 2019.
Departmental Scholarship (Economics Department Warwick) for MRes. October 2014 - September 2016.
“Mathias Erzberger” Award for Bachelor’s thesis. July 2014.