Projects
Below is a selection of projects that reflect my work in econometrics, impact evaluation, financial inclusion, and digital development.
📊 1. Causal Effect of Digital Connectivity on Financial Inclusion
Focus: Developing a Digital Connectivity Index (DCI) using the FINDEX 2025 database and estimating its causal impact on individual-level financial inclusion outcomes.
Methods: Instrumental variables, causal inference techniques, and robustness checks using cross-country microdata.
Status: Ongoing
Highlights:
- Constructed a Digital Connectivity Index (DCI) from FINDEX 2025 indicators
- Estimated causal effects on account ownership, mobile money use, and digital payment adoption
- Designed reproducible workflows for transparent and replicable analysis
📚 2. Topic Modeling on ESG Investment and Greenwashing Discourse
Focus: Applying BERTopic to map thematic structures in ESG investment literature and identify patterns of greenwashing-related discourse.
Methods: BERTopic, transformer-based embeddings, dimensionality reduction, and topic coherence evaluation.
Status: Ongoing
Highlights:
- Built a curated corpus of ESG and sustainability‑related academic publications
- Applied BERTopic to extract dominant themes and emerging discourse clusters
- Identified topic groups related to greenwashing, ESG rating divergence, and sustainability reporting
- Developed reproducible pipelines for preprocessing, modeling, and visualization
📖 3. Systematic Literature Review on ESG Investment as Real Options
Focus: Conducting a systematic literature review on ESG investment framed as real options, and using BERTopic to thematize conceptual, methodological, and empirical patterns in the existing body of research.
Methods: PRISMA-based screening, structured coding, BERTopic for thematic extraction, topic coherence evaluation, and cross-theme synthesis.
Status: Ongoing
Highlights:
- Developed a structured search and screening protocol for ESG–real options literature
- Applied BERTopic to identify dominant themes, conceptual clusters, and emerging debates
- Mapped discourse on investment timing, uncertainty, sustainability commitments, and greenwashing-related strategic behavior
- Built a reproducible workflow integrating text preprocessing, topic modeling, and visualization
🌱 4. Systematic Literature Review on ESG, Green Innovation, and Firms’ Resilience to Economic Shocks
Focus: Conducting a systematic literature review to synthesize evidence on how ESG practices and green innovation contribute to firms’ resilience during economic shocks, disruptions, and periods of heightened uncertainty.
Methods: PRISMA-based screening, structured coding, thematic synthesis, and BERTopic for automated topic discovery and discourse mapping.
Status: Ongoing
Highlights:
- Developed a comprehensive search and screening protocol covering ESG, green innovation, and resilience literature
- Applied BERTopic to identify thematic clusters related to sustainability strategies, innovation pathways, and shock‑absorption mechanisms
- Mapped conceptual linkages between ESG performance, adaptive capacity, and firm‑level resilience
- Built a reproducible workflow integrating text preprocessing, topic modeling, and cross-theme synthesis