Stephanos Vlachos

Department of Economics, University of Vienna

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About me

I am an affiliated researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. My primary research interest lies in the political economy of radical movements. 

I have investigated both the demand and supply sides of electoral politics by looking at the origins of voter preferences, how voter beliefs are formed, and how politicians can use campaign strategies to persuade the electorate.

I mainly study these questions empirically using historical data. I am of the view 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

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 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