Hello and welcome! I'm a political scientist working in international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the politics of money, finance, and economic policymaking. I'm currently a Research Associate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Glasgow. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. 

My research asks how information environments shape economic policy and market outcomes under uncertainty. I work with quantitative and computational methods along three lines:

• Media and the economy: How the media describes economic events and how these narratives shape what investors and voters believe and do.
  
  
• Information, beliefs, and economic policy: How economic policy is shaped by the beliefs leaders carry into office and the pressure organized interests exert from outside government — and how voters respond to the policies that result.
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• Political Economy of Security: How beliefs about protection and threat shape defence effort, burden-sharing and the composition of fiscal military budgets.
  
  

My work is published at International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the European Journal of Political Economy, among others. I received my Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 2023. I hold an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna.
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​I am on the job market.

Please feel free to contact me at:
+44 7743201689
+39 3485622728
nicola.nones[at]gmail[dot]com