VAB

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 economic voting, monetary policy, foreign aid, and research methods. My articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as International Organization, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly and Political Analysis.

Here’s an awkward picture in case you need to find me in the hotel lobby at some conference: selfie.jpg. 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

Preprint PDFs, supplementary materials, replication code, and data for all my published articles are archived by the Open Science Foundation. The final published versions are almost certainly available on Sci-Hub.

Thematically, these three articles are probably closest to the stuff I am currently working on:

• The Unintended Consequences of Bilateralism: Treaty Shopping and International Tax Policy.
• Conditional Tax Competition in the American States.
• Political Risk Insurance: A New Firm-Level Data Set.

Here’s a more complete list of writings:

Book

• Vincent Arel-Bundock. Analyse Causale et Méthodes Quantitatives. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021. Recension: Leblanc, Léandre. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842392100069X. URL: http://arelbundock.com/acmq.html.

Articles

• André Blais, Eric Guntermann, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Ruth Dassonneville, Jean-François Laslier, and Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski. Party preference representation. Party Politics, Forthcoming.
• Semra Sevi, Marco Mendoza Aviña, Gabrielle Peloquin-Skulski, Emmanuel Heisbourg, Paola Vegas, Maxime Coulombe, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Peter John Loewen, and André Blais. Logarithmic vs. linear visualizations of covid-19 cases do not affect citizens’ support for confinement. Canadian Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/h6z4f/, doi:10.1017/S000842392000030X.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock. The double bind of qualitative comparative analysis. Sociological Methods and Research, Forthcoming. URL: https://osf.io/v8kzj/, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119882460.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock, André Blais, and Ruth Dassonneville. Do voters benchmark economic performance? British Journal of Political Science, 51:438–449, 2021. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pk348/, doi:10.1017/S0007123418000236.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock, Clint Peinhardt, and Amy Pond. Political risk insurance: a new firm-level dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 64:987–1006, 2020. http://github.com/vincentarelbundock/opic. URL: https://osf.io/uz4tx/, doi:10.1177/0022002719875754.
• Richard Nadeau, Jean-François Daoust, and Vincent Arel-Bundock. The market, the state, and satisfaction with democracy. West European Politics, 43:250–259, 2020. URL: https://osf.io/t64cv/, doi:10.1080/01402382.2019.1603655.
• Juliet Johnson, Vincent Arel-Bundock, and Vladislav Portniaguine. Adding rooms onto a house we love: central banking after the global financial crisis. Public Administration, 97:546–560, 2019. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/bms5n/, doi:10.1111/padm.12567.
• Richard Nadeau, Vincent Arel-Bundock, and Jean-François Daoust. Satisfaction with democracy and the american dream. Journal of Politics, 81:1080–1084, 2019. URL: https://osf.io/2h6mp/, doi:10.1086/703070.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock and Krzysztof J. Pelc. When can multiple imputation improve regression estimates? Political Analysis, 26:240–245, 2018. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/46xc7/, doi:10.1017/pan.2017.43.
• Semra Sevi, Vincent Arel-Bundock, and André Blais. Do women get fewer votes? no. Canadian Journal of Political Science, pages 1–10, 2018. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sw8da/, doi:10.1017/S0008423918000495.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock and Srinivas Parinandi. Conditional tax competition in the american states. Journal of Public Policy, 38(2):191–220, 2018. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/spkjg/, doi:10.1017/S0143814X17000071.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock, Nils Enevoldsen, and CJ Yetman. Countrycode: an r package to convert country names and country codes. The Journal of Open Source Software, 3:848, 2018. doi:10.21105/joss.00848.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock. The unintended consequences of bilateralism: treaty shopping and international tax policy. International Organization, 71(2):349–371, 2017. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kg8rw/, doi:10.1017/S0020818317000108.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock. The political determinants of foreign direct investment: a firm-level analysis. International Interactions, 43(3):424–452, 2017. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/vydsh/, doi:10.1080/03050629.2016.1185011.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock, James Atkinson, and Rachel Augustine Potter. The limits of foreign aid diplomacy: how bureaucratic design shapes aid distribution. International Studies Quarterly, 59(3):544–556, 2015. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5zpkh/, doi:10.1111/isqu.12191.
• William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock. Independent but not indifferent: partisan bias in monetary policy at the fed. Economics & Politics, 25(1):1–26, 2013. URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nmc3z/, doi:10.1111/ecpo.12006.

Chapters, Book Reviews, etc.

• Semra Sevi, André Blais, and Vincent Arel-Bundock. Do women get fewer votes in ontario provincial elections? In Roosmarijn de Geus, Peter John Lowen, Erin Tolley, and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, editors, Women in Politics, Women in Leadership. University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock and Alton B.H. Worthington. (Book Review) Merging interests: When domestic firms shapes FDI policy. In Perspectives on Politics, volume 18. 2020. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002832.
• Vincent Arel-Bundock. La vie est belle? In Département de science politique de l’Université de Montréal, editor, La politique en questions, pages 253–257. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018.
• William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock. The political sources of crisis situations. In Mark Hallerberg, Inge Kaul, and Mark Kayser, editors, Governance Challenges and Innovations: Financial and Fiscal Governance, pages 115–134. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Code

• marginaleffects: Compute, summarize, and plot marginal effects, adjusted predictions, contrasts, and marginal means for a wide variety of models.
• modelsummary: Beautiful, customizable, publication-ready model summaries in R.
• countrycode: R package to convert country codes and country names.
• WDI: R package to search and download thousands of panel data series from the World Bank's World Development Indicators.
• 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 1700+ datasets which 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.