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
Work of Wages: Capital Controls in the Real Economy
Remittance Flows and Approval of Governments, with Rayan Sayour and Tim Büthe
How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Turn on a Lightbulb? Innovation, Antitrust/Competition Law, and Judicial Independence, with Cindy Cheng and Tim Büthe
Complements or Substitutes? The Dynamic Relationship between FDI and Trade
Signaling the Private Sector: Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and Foreign Investment
Investors By Any Other Name: A Reconceptualization of International Money Laundering, with Jane Sumner.
Select Research Presentations
June 2024 Work of Wages: Labor Preferences over Controls in the Financial Economy, 14th annual conference of the
European Political Science Association
Mar 2024 How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Turn on a Lightbulb? Innovation, Antitrust/Competition Law, and Judicial Independence, Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA) Annual Congress
May 2023 The Power of Repatriation: Export Proceeds and Government’s Room to Maneuver on Exchange Rate Policy, 2023
81st Annual MPSA Conference
May 2019 Choosing Capital Controls, Upper Midwest International Relations Workshop
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
Apr 2017 Human Rights Reports and the Organizations that Produce Them, 2017 75th Annual MPSA Conference
Feb 2017 Capital Mobility and Democratization: Exploring the Role of Foreign Elites, 2017 58th Annual International Studies Association Convention
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
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