Jaime Marques Pereira

Jaime Marques Pereira serves as Lecturer in Economics and Data Science at Lancaster University's Department of Economics within the Lancaster University Management School. His work bridges computational methods and economic analysis with focus on media-politics interactions.

Education

• PhD in Economics, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), completed January 2023 under supervision of Prof. Guido Tabellini, Prof. Eliana La Ferrara, and Prof. Carlo Schwarz
• M.Sc. in Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal), 2016

Research Focus: Applies text analysis, computer vision, and computer audition to investigate how media coverage shapes voter and politician behavior. Core interests include political economy dynamics, media economics, and NLP/ML applications to microeconomic questions regarding voting decisions, consumption patterns, and investment behaviors.

Academic Engagement: Active member of Lancaster's Economics Research Group and Political Economy and International Trade research cluster. Open to PhD supervision for candidates developing NLP/ML approaches to political-media-economic systems analysis.