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 am 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 am 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
Research
The logic of fear: Populism and media coverage of immigrant crimes (with M. Couttenier, S. Hatte, and M. Thoenig)
Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics; VoxEU column
Evaluating the effectiveness of campaign speeches: Evidence from the first national speaking tour (with J. Buggle)
R&R at The Economic Journal
On war and political radicalization
Accepted at European Economic Review
Teaching
I teach Political Economy for Master's students and Quantitative Economic History for Bachelor students at the University of Vienna.
In the past I have been a graduate teaching assistant of Applied Econometrics and Economic Growth at the University of Lausanne.
Contact
Stephanos Vlachos
Department of Economics
University of Vienna
stephanos.vlachos@univie.ac.at
+43-1-4277-37456