She completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2014. Her research interests focus on political economy, economic history, international trade, industrial organization and development economics. She is particularly interested in the media, especially the question of how media competition affects the provision of information and political attitudes. She is a Member of the Commission Economique de la Nation, non partisan Council of Economic Advisors to the French Finance Minister. Her work has been published in the Journal of Globalization and Development, the Journal of International Economics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, as well as in several handbook chapters. She is the author of Sauver les médias: Capitalisme, financement participatif et démocratie (Le Seuil, 2015) (English translation forthcoming: Harvard University Press, 2016).