Matthias Roesti
Title
Ph.D.
Last Name
Roesti
First name
Matthias
Email
matthias.roesti@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 3159
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Item type:Publication, Economic Growth and Climate Change - Opportunities and Challenges on the Way to a Zero-Carbon SocietyType:journal articleJournal:Wirtschaftspolitische BlätterVolume:2017/64Issue:3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, ``This is my Rifle'' - On US Police Militarisation
and Crime(2020-08)I examine the effect of local police militarisation on violent crime using evidence from the 1033-programme in the US. Exogenous cost shifters due to the particular logistics of the programme are exploited to instrument for the amount of equipment received by local law enforcement. The results do not support previous county-level studies, who find strong and consistent negative effects on crime. I show that those findings are likely based on a combination of (i) inconsistencies in the underlying data and (ii) limited comparability of different subsamples. Accounting for these factors, I find only weak evidence of a negative impact on violent crime – notably for more rural areas, which form a majority of US counties. For this subsample, the results do not support the notion that military equipment enhances the effectiveness of enforcement agencies: if anything, arrests fall while any resulting crime reduction is of negligible economic significance.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Broadband internet and fact-resistant beliefs: The case of climate change skepticism(2024-06-06)In the present study, I explore the informational role of broadband internet in forming and spreading fact-resistant attitudes, specifically climate change skepticism. My approach uses fine-grained broadband quality data in the U.S. along with an identification strategy relying on terrain-induced variations in the cost of broadband deployment. Overall, the results indicate that better internet can encourage unwarranted skepticism, albeit only to a limited extent. Suggestive evidence is further consistent with middle-aged and more Republican-leaning segments of the population driving any negative overall impacts toward denialism, while younger and less conservative segments, if at all, tend to respond in the opposite way.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Broadband internet and fact-resistant beliefs: The case of climate change skepticism *(2024-04-04)In the present study, I explore the informational role of broadband internet in forming and spreading fact-resistant attitudes, specifically climate change skepticism. My approach uses fine-grained broadband quality data in the U.S. along with an identification strategy relying on terrain-induced variations in the cost of broadband deployment. Overall, the results indicate that better internet can encourage unwarranted skepticism, albeit only to a limited extent. Suggestive evidence is further consistent with middle-aged and more Republican-leaning segments of the population driving any negative overall impacts toward denialism, while younger and less conservative segments, if at all, tend to respond in the opposite way.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Lobbying in Disguise(2024-07-02); The ability of private interests to influence the political process is an important topic in economics and political science. While some of these efforts appear as campaign finance and lobbying expenditures in the official record, private interests may also engage in “covert” influence through media capture. In this paper, we systematically examine whether and to what extent corporations in the United States with interests in slowing climate action might have used corporate advertisements in media outlets as a strategic tool to align such outlets’ coverage with their particular interests. Based on several complementary empirical strategies, we find that advertisement spending from such actors (i) increases during election periods and (ii) is associated with less and more skeptical leaning coverage of climate change.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Lobbying in Disguise(2023-03-11); We present (preliminary) evidence that seems consistent with "lobbying in disguise": - Markedly higher advertising spending by Koch Industries and big oil companies during crucial political periods - Big oil advertising dollars associated with (i) less newspaper coverage of the topic; (ii) lower coverage of the link between hurricanes and global warming; (iii) more skeptical leaning newspaper coverage in crucial years - Koch Industries advertising expenditure might have increased the Republican vote share in the 2008 and 2012 presidential racesType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Broadband Internet and Fact-Resistant Beliefs - The Case of Climate Change Skepticism(2023-06-29)I explore the role of broadband internet in forming and spreading fact-resistant attitudes, specifically climate change skepticism. My approach uses fine-grained broadband quality data in the U.S. along with an identification strategy relying on terrain-induced variations in the cost of broadband deployment. Overall, the results provide only minor indications that better broadband internet access can encourage unwarranted skepticism, despite the public discourse narratives to the contrary. At the same time, some suggestive evidence indicates that middle-aged segments of the population may drive any negative overall impacts. Lastly, I point to a potential mechanism behind the effects. Shifts in political ideology appear to explain a significant part of the observed link between internet quality and climate change skepticism.Type:conference speech - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Lobbying in Disguise(2023-06-02); We present (preliminary) evidence that seems consistent with "lobbying in disguise": - Markedly higher advertising spending by Koch Industries and big oil companies during crucial political periods - Newspaper coverage responses following inflows of fossil fuel advertisingType:conference speech - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Hohes Vertrauen macht nicht unbedingt reicher, aber glücklicher(2020-12-02)