Maria Petrova is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG), Affiliate Professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and the Alfa-Bank Associate Professor of Economics at the New Economic School. Maria is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies since 2016.
She received PhD from Harvard University in 2008. She spent 2012 - 2013 as a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. In 2012-2013, she was also the Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society. Her research interests include mass media economics, political economy, and corporate governance.

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Rethinking media pluralism in France
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- Competition Policy

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The sword and the word: How Allied bombing and propaganda undermined German morale during WWII
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- Economic history 
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Social media and protest participation: Evidence from Russia
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- Politics and economics

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Social media, political donations and incumbency advantage in the US
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- Frontiers of economic research 
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Social media and corruption: Evidence from a Russian blog
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- Politics and economics