I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. I started my role at SoDa Labs, an inter-disciplinary Impact Lab attached to the Monash Business School, in September 2022 and have since moved to the Department of Economics in July 2024 to support the Department's research using unique Australian microdata from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
I am an applied economist with broad research interests in political economy, environment and resource economics, and corporate social responsibility and governance. My research also explores topics in long-run/comparative development and digital economics.
My Job Market Paper is part of my research agenda on the political economy of natural resource extraction and provides new insights into the causes of violent state repression of socioenvironmental protests. In this line of research, joint work with Nathan Lane and Paul A. Raschky also examines how human rights organizations in cooperation with the media can hold powerful multinationals accountable for severe human rights violations related to their operations in the absence of a central authority.
For my work, I often undertake extensive data collection efforts, for which I make use of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML) and geocomputation. I also use financial econometrics and data to answer questions of coporate social responsibility and corporate governance from a political economy perspective.
I am on the 2024/2025 academic job market and available for interviews.
Contact: david.kreitmeir1@monash.edu
References: Sascha O. Becker · Paul A. Raschky · Uwe Sunde