Timo Wochner

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich and a Research Affiliate at CESifo.

I obtained my PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) in 2025 and previously worked as a junior economist at the ifo Institute. 

My main research fields are political economy and macroeconomics.

Publications

Losing Political Representation
Lead Author; with A. Günther, N. Potrafke & F. Rösel. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Expert Inflation Preferences and the Evaluation of Monetary Policy
Lead Author; with L. Hack & N. Potrafke. Journal of International Economics, 2026, Volume 164, 104317.

Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research  
with A. Brodeur & numerous others. Nature, 2026, Volume 652, 151-156. 

Outside Employment and Parliamentary Priorities
with K. Gründler & N. Potrafke. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, Volume 237, 107185.

The Beauty Premium of Politicians in Office
with K. Gründler & N. Potrafke. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, Volume 217. 

Part-time Parliamentarians? Evidence from Outside Earnings and Parliamentary Activities (Masterthesis)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, Volume 75, 102224.


Working Papers and Work in Progress

Gambling for Re-election
with A. Langtry, N. Potrafke & M. Schlepper   Revise & Resubmit at Economic Journal

Experts as Intermediaries
with K. Gründler, M. Lamla & N. Potrafke  (also available as CESifo Working Paper 12492)

Economic Development in the Shadow of War
with  M. Schlepper (CESifo Working Paper 12915) 

Public Funds, Private Coverage: The Political Returns to Media Capture

Intellectual Reparations: Mapping a Large-Scale Program of Knowledge Transfers
with S. Hager & M. Schlepper 

Reviving Lost Voices: Economic Expectations from Historical Diaries
with L. Hack, L. Kriesmair &  L. Diebold