Lara Marie Berger (geb. Müller)
PhD Candidate 
E-Mail: lara.berger@uni-koeln.de

Tel: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 5483
Gebäude 102 (SSC), 4. Etage, Raum 327

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CV

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In my research I tackle problems in the fields of political economy and applied microeconomics. In particular I study how information, expectations, and digital market structures shape economic behavior. To do this, I combine the economic toolkit with machine learning and causal inference methods.

Research Fields

Information and Media Economics, Experimental Economics, Expectation Formation, Digital Markets, Text-as-Data

Publications

Debunking "fake news" on social media: immediate- and short-term effects of fact checking and media literacy interventions
(with Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl and Johannes Münster) policy briefing 
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 245, May 2025

Improving science literacy in the newsroom: Experimental evidence (with Anna Kerkhof and Nikola Noske)
Accepted, PNAS Nexus

Working Paper

How digital media markets amplify news sentiment
 JMP 2025/2026

How narratives impact financial behavior
(with Sören Harrs and Bettina Rockenbach) 
Submitted

Selected Work in Progress

Information acquisition via ChatGPT and TikTok: The effects on beliefs, attitudes and narratives (with Yero Ndiaye)

Upholding a good image: Selective country comparisons in the media (with Gönül Dogan and Louis Strang)