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 radical movements.
More precisely, I'm interested in the short- and long-run determinants of political preferences and how these preferences express themselves in observable voting behavior.
I mainly study these questions empirically using historical data. I'm convinced that sufficient knowledge of historical events can help identify quasi-natural experiments that can be exploited to answer a broad range of questions that are policy relevant nowadays.
Research fields
Political Economy, Public Economics, Economic History
Publications
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan’s Unique Whistle-Stop Tour (with J. Buggle)
The Economic Journal (accepted); Online Appendix; Replication files; Working paper; Broadstreet blog
Anti-Muslim Voting and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes (with M. Couttenier, S. Hatte, and M. Thoenig)
Review of Economics and Statistics (online early); 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
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
Why do people vote? Are elections a device through which voters discipline politicians? Or are they a way for voters to express their preferences? How can the media influence the political process? In this course we try to answer such questions both theoretically and empirically.
Quantitative Economic History (BA) – University of Vienna
The aim of this course is to introduce the measures used in long-run applied economic history, their theoretical underpinnings, and their implications in empirical research. The course covers both theoretical and empirical research.
Contact
Stephanos Vlachos
Department of Economics
University of Vienna
stephanos.vlachos@univie.ac.at
+43-1-4277-37456