Hannes Mueller is a tenured researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE(CSIC)). His fields of interest are political economy, development economics and conflict studies. In his most recent research projects he has analyzed how political institutions can make societies more robust, the channels through which violence affects the economy and how conflict can be predicted using millions of newspaper articles. His work has been published in leading journals in economics and political science such as the American Economic Review (AER), the American Political Science Review (APSR), the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) and the American Journal of Economics: Macro (AEJ: Macro). He has produced research reports for the UK government, the World Bank and the UN.