Yves Kläy
PhD Candidate in Political Economy at the University of Fribourg.
Direct Democracy
Legislative Behavior
Political Economy
Public Economics
PhD Candidate in Political Economy at the University of Fribourg.
I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Fribourg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Reiner Eichenberger. My research lives at the intersection of political economy, legislative behavior, and direct democracy — using empirical methods to study how democratic institutions represent citizen preferences.
From February through July 2026, I am a visiting researcher at the ARC Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
I also work as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Swiss Economic Policy (IWP), in Lucerne. At the IWP, I conduct research on and contribute to the Parlameter, an interactive online tool that makes Swiss politics more transparent.