Curriculum Vitae
E-Mail: twochner@kof.ethz.ch
Address:
ETH Zürich
Chair of Applied Macroeconomics
Leonhardstrasse 21, LEE F 114
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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.
Gambling for Re-election
with A. Langtry, N. Potrafke & M. Schlepper (older version: CESifo Working Paper 11125)
Revise & Resubmit at Economic Journal
Losing Political Representation
with A. Günther, N. Potrafke & F. Rösel (also available as CESifo Working Paper 12051)
Revise & Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics
Expert Inflation Preferences and the Evaluation of Monetary Policy
with N. Potrafke
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of International Economics
Experts as Intermediaries
with K. Gründler, M. Lamla & N. Potrafke (also available as CESifo Working Paper 12492)
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
Work in Progress
Economic Development in the Shadow of War
with M. Schlepper
Reviving Lost Voices: Economic Expectations from Historical Diaries
with L. Hack & L. Diebold
Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research
with A. Brodeur & numerous others. Nature, 2026, Volume 652, 151-156.
Earlier title: Mass reproducibility and replicability: A new hope
Outside Employment and Parliamentary Priorities
with K. Gründler & N. Potrafke. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, Volume 237, 107185. [CESifo Working Paper 12016]
[Media Coverage: FAZ Volkswirt]
The Beauty Premium of Politicians in Office
with K. Gründler & N. Potrafke. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, Volume 217. [Working Paper][Policy Paper]
[Media Coverage: FAZ, Wirtschaftswoche, ntv, Augsburger Allgemeine, Welt TV/N24, FAZ Volkswirt, Tonspur-Wissen Podcast]
Part-time Parliamentarians? Evidence from Outside Earnings and Parliamentary Activities (Masterthesis)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, Volume 75, 102224. [Policy Paper]
[Media Coverage: ifo Podcast]