I am a political scientist at the Université de Montréal, where I read on comparative and international political economy. I am particularly interested in the politics of international taxation and foreign direct investment, but I have also worked on monetary policy, foreign aid, economic voting, and research methods.
I write a lot of code, am a fan of Open Source Software, and believe that researchers should cite the software they use.
Here’s a picture of me with Invader, in case you need to spot me in the hotel lobby at some conference: vincent.jpg (Photo credit: Amy). And here’s how I pronounce my weird hyphenated last name: arel-bundock.mp3 (“Arel” as in “barrel”; “Bundock” as in “bun” + “duck”).
Go blue!
Research
My preprints, data, and code are archived by the Open Science Foundation. The final published versions of my articles are probably available on Sci-Hub.
Some recent papers:
- Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered. With Ryan Briggs, Marco Aviña, TD Stanley, and Chris Doucouliagos. Accepted by the Journal of Politics.
- Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reform. With Krzysztof Pelc. Accepted by the Journal of Politics.
- Where should multinationals pay taxes? With André Blais. Published by International Studies Quarterly.
- The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System. With Lisa Lechner. Published by International Interactions.
- How to Intepret Statistical Models Using
marginaleffects
forR
andPython
. With Noah Greifer and Andrew Heiss. Forthcoming at the Journal of Statistical Software.
Some older papers I still kind of like:
- The Unintended Consequences of Bilateralism: Treaty Shopping and International Tax Policy. Published by International Organization.
- When Can Multiple Imputation Improve Regression Estimates? With Krzysztof Pelc. Published by Political Analysis.
- Conditional Tax Competition in the American States. With Chinnu Parinandi. Published by Legislative Studies Quarterly.
- Political Risk Insurance: A New Firm-Level Data Set. With Amy Pond and Clint Peinhardt. Published by the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Code
- marginaleffects: R package to compute and plot predictions, slopes, marginal means, and comparisons (contrasts, risk ratios, odds ratios, etc.) for over 70 classes of statistical models in R. Conduct linear and non-linear hypothesis tests, as well as equivalence tests using the delta method.
- modelsummary: Beautiful, customizable, publication-ready data and model summaries in R.
- tinytable: A small but powerful R package to draw beautiful tables in a variety of formats: HTML, LaTeX, Word, PDF, PNG, Markdown, and Typst. The user interface is minimalist and easy to learn, while giving users access to powerful frameworks to create endlessly customizable tables.
- countrycode: R package to convert country codes and country names.
- softbib: Software Bibliographies for R Projects Automatically detect libraries used in a project and create software bibliographies in ‘PDF’, ‘Word’, ‘Rmarkdown’, and ‘BibTeX’.
- altdoc: A simple and powerful package to create documentation websites for R packages. altdoc makes it trivial to create beautiful websites for simple R packages, and it can efficiently organize documentation for complex projects with hundreds of functions or dozens vignettes.
- WDI: R package to search and download thousands of panel data series from the World Bank's World Development Indicators.
- tinysnapshot: Snapshots for unit tests using the tinytest framework for
R
. Includes expectations to test baseR
andggplot2
plots as well as console output fromprint()
. - regrets: R package to print facts and pictures of egrets (h/t Jane Sumner)
- violets: Violets are BLUE. OLS is too. An R package which re-estimates fancy statistical models using simple OLS. (h/t Alton BH Worthington)
Data
- Political Risk Insurance and Finance: This project aims to make available firm-level information about every insurance contract issued, financing project initiated, and insurance claim settled by the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
- Central Bankers’ speeches: A collection of 14601 speeches given by central bankers between 1997 and 2018. Collected in preparation for the article 'Adding rooms onto a house we love: Central banking after the global financial crisis', with Juliet Johnson and Vlad Portniaguine.
- Rdatasets: A collection of 2000+ datasets that were originally distributed alongside the statistical software environment R and some of its add-on packages. The goal is to make these data more broadly accessible for teaching and statistical software development. Each dataset is distributed in comma-separated values format, with detailed html documentation.