About me
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. My primary research interest is in the political economy of conflict.
More precisely, I'm interested in the determinants of identification, both social and political, and consequences of such attitudes on voting behavior.
I mainly study these questions using historical data. I'm convinced that sufficient knowledge of historical events can help identify quasi-natural experiments. These events can then be exploited to answer a broad range of questions that are policy relevant nowadays.
Research fields
Political Economy, Public Economics, Economic History
Publications
Anti-Muslim Voting and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes (with M. Couttenier, S. Hatte, and M. Thoenig)
Review of Economics and Statistics (just accepted); Online appendix; Replication files; Working paper; VoxEU column
On war and political radicalization: Evidence from forced conscription into the Wehrmacht
European Economic Review 144 (2022): 104086; Online appendix; Replication files; Working paper
Working papers
Evaluating the effectiveness of campaign speeches: Evidence from the first national speaking tour (with J. Buggle)
Conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal
Work in progress
Economic Aryanization in the city of Bordeaux (with J. Senn and J. Tolvanen)
Far-right ownership in the printed press and public policy (with M. Couttenier, S. Hatte, and T. Taylor)
Teaching
Political Economy (MA) – University of Vienna
Quantitative Economic History (BA) – University of Vienna
Contact
Stephanos Vlachos
Department of Economics
University of Vienna
stephanos.vlachos@univie.ac.at
+43-1-4277-37456