Research
Publications
Bagozzi, B. E., Brandt, P. T., Freeman, J. R., Holmes, J. S., Kim, A., Mendizabal, A. P., & Potz-Nielsen, C. (2018). The prevalence and severity of underreporting bias in machine-and human-coded data. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-9.
Montal, F., Potz-Nielsen, C., & Sumner, J. L. (2020). What states want: Estimating ideal points from international investment treaty content. Journal of Peace Research, 57(6), 679-691.
Working Papers
Controlling the `Real' Economy: Labor Preferences over Capital in the Productive Economy
Complements or Substitutes? The Dynamic Relationship between FDI and Trade
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Signaling the Private Sector: Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and Foreign Investment
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Investors By Any Other Name: A Reconceptualization of International Money Laundering, with Jane Sumner.
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Recording Abuses: How the Editing Process Shapes our Understanding of Human Rights Abuses, with Robert Ralston and Thomas R. Vargas. Working Paper available here.
Capital Mobility and Democratization: Exploring the Role of Foreign Elites with Thomas R. Vargas
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Select Research Presentations
May 2019 Choosing Capital Controls, Upper Midwest International Relations Workshop
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Jul 2018 Estimating Ideal Points from International Investment Treaty Content, 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for
Political Methodology
May 2018 Considering Capital Controls: The Role of Time and Past Experiences in Policy After Financial Crisis, Upper
Midwest International Relations Workshop
Apr 2018 Capital Mobility, Foreign Elites, and Democratization, 76th Annual MPSA Conference
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Apr 2017 Human Rights Reports and the Organizations that Produce Them, 2017 75th Annual MPSA Conference
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Feb 2017 Capital Mobility and Democratization: Exploring the Role of Foreign Elites, 2017 58th Annual International Studies Association Convention
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Jul 2016 Measuring Information Effects in Human Rights Reports: Applying Machine-Coding and Latent Semantic Analytic
Techniques to Develop Measures of Information over Time, 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology
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Jul 2015 Accounting for Strategic Interaction: An Application of Strategic Modeling to External State Support for Rebel Groups,
2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology