Roseboro Foundation is a modern political economy think tank that studies how ideology, collective emotion, and macroeconomic regimes shape financial markets, organizational strategy, and democratic systems.
Roseboro Foundation is the institutional home for modern political-behavioral finance theory, an emerging framework developed by Ashley D. Roseboro that integrates political economy, behavioral finance, and data science to explain how ideology and emotion shape financial decision-making.
In this view, markets are not governed by fundamentals alone. Political identity, cultural narratives, and media environments act as shadow variables that move prices, reshape risk premia, and redirect capital flows. The Foundation’s work models these dynamics empirically and translates them into insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.
Our work is organized around four interconnected pillars that translate theory into empirical research and actionable insight.
We study how political polarization, partisan identity, and sociopolitical branding shape stock returns, investor expectations, and equity risk premia.
We use regime-switching models and macro-financial indicators to understand when behavioral forces become most influential in driving risk and return.
We analyze how historical memory, civil rights narratives, and media ecosystems shape public belief, political participation, and long-run expectations.
We apply modern political economy insights to mission-driven organizations, helping them design strategies that account for ideological risk and narrative environments.
These projects anchor our research agenda and demonstrate how theory, data, and narrative combine in practice.
An ongoing research program examining how ideological branding controversies influence stock performance, investor sentiment, and corporate strategy—especially during periods of market stress and elevated volatility.
Focus: political identity, ESG backlash, equity risk under polarization.
A multi-essay research agenda on the political economy of investor sentiment and financial innovation, including extended asset-pricing models, sentiment analysis, and macro-regime modeling.
Focus: modern political-behavioral finance theory and regime-dependent pricing.
Work centered on civil rights figures and movements, exploring how historical narratives about justice and citizenship influence contemporary beliefs about democracy, equity, and opportunity.
Focus: civil rights memory, democratic legitimacy, and long-term expectations.
Ashley D. Roseboro is the Founder and Chief Theorist of the Roseboro Foundation and a PhD Fellow in Business Analytics at the University of South Alabama. His work bridges finance, behavioral science, and communication strategy, with a focus on how ideology, sentiment, and macroeconomic structures influence organizational strategy, market behavior, and societal transformation.
Drawing on econometrics, machine learning, and natural language processing, he examines nonlinear and regime-dependent patterns in asset pricing, demonstrating how investor psychology and sociopolitical identity influence the amplification or mitigation of financial volatility across both traditional and decentralized markets.
Roseboro also serves as Founder and CEO of Roseboro Holdings, a consulting firm that applies the Foundation’s research to help organizations turn data into strategy and strategy into a coherent narrative in complex political and economic environments.
The Foundation serves as the research and ideas engine for this agenda, while Roseboro Holdings functions as the applied advisory arm.
We partner with universities, think tanks, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to advance research, convene conversations, and design applied projects rooted in modern political economy.
For research collaborations, please include a brief description of your institution, the question you are exploring, and potential data sources.
