Stephanos Vlachos
Department of Economics, University of Vienna
About me
I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the same department, where I taught Political Economy at the Master’s level and Quantitative Economic History at the Bachelor’s level. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
My primary research interest is political economy. My work examines both the demand and supply sides of electoral politics, including the origins of voter preferences, how beliefs are formed, and how politicians use campaign strategies to influence the electorate. I study these questions primarily through empirical analysis of historical data. I view history as a powerful source of quasi-natural experiments that can be leveraged to address a wide range of policy-relevant questions today.
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)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 106, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 576–585; Online appendix; Replication files; Working paper; VoxEU column
Populist Persuasion in Electoral Campaigns: Evidence from Bryan’s Unique Whistle-Stop Tour (with J. Buggle)
The Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 649, January 2023, Pages 493–515; Online Appendix; Replication files; Working paper; Broadstreet blog
On war and political radicalization: Evidence from forced conscription into the Wehrmacht
European Economic Review, Volume 144, May 2022, 104086; Online appendix; Replication files; Working paper
Work in progress
Competition and expropriations in WWII 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