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Opinion Dynamics with Conflicting Interests
Patrick Mellacher
I develop a rather simple agent-based model to capture a co-evolution of opinion formation, political decision making and economic outcomes. I use this model to study how societies…
Growth, Inequality and Declining Business Dynamism in a Unified Schumpeter Mark I + II Model
Patrick Mellacher
I develop a simple Schumpeterian agent-based model where the entry and exit of firms, their productivity and markup, the birth of new industries and the social structure of the pop…
Endogenous viral mutations, evolutionary selection, and containment policy design
Patrick Mellacher
How will the novel coronavirus evolve? I study a simple epidemiological model, in which mutations may change the properties of the virus and its associated disease stochastically a…
The Impact of Corona Populism: Empirical Evidence from Austria and Theory
Patrick Mellacher
I study the co-evolution between public opinion and party policy in situations of crises by investigating a policy U-turn of a major Austrian right-wing party (FPOE) during the Cov…
Cooperation in the Age of COVID-19: Evidence from Public Goods Games
Patrick Mellacher
Does COVID-19 change the willingness to cooperate? Four Austrian university courses in economics play a public goods game in consecutive semesters on the e-learning platform Moodle…