Thomas Seiler is a PhD student in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Visiting Research Student in the Economics Department at the LSE. He received his M.A. in Economics from the University of St. Gallen in 2010. After graduating, he worked for Swiss Re in Zurich before starting his PhD studies in Stockholm in 2013. His primary research interest is in the differential effects of risk and ambiguity on corporate decision making.
Dates of Visit: September 2015 - July 2016
Project Title: Measuring Risk and Ambiguity Using Corporate Disclosure
Project Description: In this project, we use textual analysis methods to construct firm-level indices of risk and ambiguity for a large set of U.S. corporations. These allow us to empirically analyze the differential impacts of risk and ambiguity on firm behaviour.