Thomas Renault

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Thomas Renault

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. My research lies at the intersection of economics, finance, and technology, with a particular focus on applying machine learning and textual analysis to study the impact of media and social media. I lead the newly established AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne. I am also the creator of the blog Captain Economics and consultant in AI and LLM at the Banque de France.

Selected list of publications:

- Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X's Community Notes (2025), PNAS (Forthcoming)

- The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration (2024), The Economic Journal

- Media sentiment on monetary policy: Determinants and relevance for inflation expectations (2022), Journal of International Money and Finance

- Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), Journal of Public Economics

- Intraday online investor sentiment and return patterns in the U.S. stock market (2017), Journal of Banking and Finance



Selected list of working papers:

- Emotions and Policy Views (2025), with E. Davoine, S. Stantcheva and Y. Algan

- Community-based fact-checking reduces the spread of misleading posts on social media (2024), with T. Chuai, M. Pilarski, D. Restrepo-Amariles, A. Troussel-Clément, G. Lenzini, N. Pröllochs



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Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Social Media
  • Media Economics
  • Machine Learning
  • Financial Markets
  • Misinformation
  • Behavioral Finance