Dimitria Freitas

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Office SCH C 261

Phone +49 351 463 34043

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Dimitria Freitas is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Economics, especially Economic Policy and Economic Research. The topics of her dissertation are:

• the (economic) determinants of populism in Western democracies, 
• the influence of media bias on voting behaviour and 
• place-based policies and regional labour markets. 

She is interested in Bayesian inference methods, causal inference, statistical learning methods / ML, and text-as-data analysis.

Policy Papers

Freitas, D., Syga, S. (2022). 35 Cent weniger für Benzin und 17 Cent weniger für Diesel - Der Tankrabatt ist angekommen. Ifo Dresden berichtet 5/2022, 13-18.

Work in Progress

"The Electoral Consequences of Relocating Public Sector Workers in Germany" (joint with Luisa Doerr and Florian Dorn)

"The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development" (Single-authored)

"25 Years Fox News: The Impact on the Social Sciences" (joint with Patrick Zwerschke)

"Right-Wing Populism in Western Countries: Introducing a Robust Empirical Model" (joint with Patrick Zwerschke)