Personal profile
Research interests
Michael Dorsch is an applied economist whose research and teaching interests are mainly in political economics and public economics. Employing formal theoretical modeling and data-driven empirical investigation, Michael's research has appeared in leading academic journals across the quantitative social sciences.
Michael teaches at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels at CEU. He is the head of the Department of Public Policy and an elected faculty representative on the CEU Senate.
Before joining CEU in 2013, Michael was on the economics faculty at the American University of Paris. He is a recurring visiting research professor at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and has previously held visiting professorships at the Insper Institute in São Paolo, La Sapienza Università di Roma, and the Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002 → 2008
External positions
Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris
2008 → 2013
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How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption
Bettin, S. S. & Dorsch, M. T., Mar 2026, In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 58, 24 p., 101056.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Land invasions and contemporary slavery
Cepaluni, G., Civitarese, J. & Dorsch, M. T., Jun 2026, In: European Journal of Political Economy. 93, 16 p., 102807.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Demographic and Political Transitions
Chaba, R., Dorsch, M., Hiller, V. & Maarek, P., 22 Feb 2024.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
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Politico-economic determinants of support for green parties: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany
Surdea-Hernea, V. & Dorsch, M., 25 Jul 2024, SSRN, 28 p.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
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Policy Evaluation in Polarized Polities: The Case of Randomized Controlled Trials
Corduneanu-Huci, C., Dorsch, M. T. & Maarek, P., 7 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Development Studies. 60, 5, p. 645-661 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Courses
Datasets
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Replication Data for: Democratization and the Conditional Dynamics of Income Distribution
Dorsch, M. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 2019
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/d64fnb, https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/D64FNB
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