Mike McRae - Economist

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. I am on the 2026 economics job market. JMP

My research focuses on applied microeconomics, with particular interest in the intersection of Media Economics and the Political Economy, the evolution of norms, and the economics of AI.

My ML projects focus on the creation of large-scale historical text datasets using advanced machine learning techniques, including neural networks and transformer models.

Feel free to check out my CV for more details about my work and academic background.

If you’d like to reach out, you can email me.

I am also known as Michael McRae.