I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Economics of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Fields of Interest

• Political economics
• Political advertising and affective polarization
• Social mobility and zero-sum thinking
• Zero-sum beliefs and political views
• Economics of happiness
• Applied econometrics

Publications

• Liu, Kelly J. and Alois Stutzer (2026). The Role of Social Mobility Experience in Zero-Sum Beliefs. Review of Income and Wealth 72, no. 4: e70094. [paper]

Working Papers

• Liu, Kelly J. and Alois Stutzer (2026). Zero-Sum Beliefs, Political Views, and Life Satisfaction in a Rich Country. Accepted for publication at the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. [paper]
• Liu, Kelly J. (2026). Televised Election Campaigns and Affective Polarization in the United States. WWZ Working Paper No. 8. [paper]