Research

Working Papers:

  • Mellacher, P., & Plakolb, S. (2025). Global Inequality in Vaccine Access, Mortality and Economy: An Agent-based Exploration. Graz Economics Paper 2025–12.
  • Asemota, E., Mellacher, P., & Rossi, S.P.S. (2025). Covid-19 and Right-wing Vote Share: Evidence from the European Elections in Austria, Italy, and Sweden. Graz Economics Paper 2025–10.
  • Mellacher, P. (2025). Recovering the Original Downs Model of Spatial Party Competition. GSC Discussion Paper No. 34
  • Rath, M. & Mellacher, P. (2025). Exploring the effects of Covid-19-policies on intra-household care work division. GSC Discussion Paper No. 33
  • Geyer, L. & Mellacher, P. (2024). Simulating Party Competition in Dynamic Voter Distributions. GSC Discussion Paper No. 32. You can find the model (including a graphical user interface) at github.
  • Mellacher, P. and Lechner, G. (2023): Objectifying the Measurement of Voter Ideology. GSC Discussion Paper No. 29/2.
  • Mellacher, P. (2021): Opinion Dynamics with Conflicting Interests, GSC Discussion Paper No. 28. You can find the model (including a graphical user interface) at github.
  • Mellacher, P. (2020): COVID-Town: An Integrated Economic-Epidemiological Agent-Based Model. GSC Discussion Paper No. 23.
  • Mellacher, P. (2020): Cooperation in the Age of Covid-19: Evidence from Public Goods Games. arxiv.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

  • Mellacher, P. (2025): Growth, Inequality and Declining Business Dynamism in a Unified Schumpeter Mark I + II model, Industrial and Corporate Change, dtaf012, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaf012. You can find the model (including a graphical user interface) at github.
  • Lackner, T., Luca, F., Mellacher, P. (2025): Opinion Dynamics meet Agent-based Climate Economics: An Integrated Analysis of Carbon Taxation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 229, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106816. You can find the OD model at github.
  • Hager, T., Mellacher, P. & Rath, M. (2025): Gender Norms and Network Structure: A Model of the Intra-Household Division of Labor,  Accepted for publication at Feminist Economics. read the WP here. You can find the model (including a graphical user interface) at github.
  • Mellacher, P. (2023): The Impact of Corona Populism: Empirical Evidence from Austria and Theory. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 209, 113-140 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.02.021  You can find replication codes and instruction at github.
  • Mellacher, P. (2022): Endogenous viral mutations, evolutionary selection, and containment policy design, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-021-00344-3 You can find the model (including a graphical user interface) at github.
  • Mellacher, P. (2021): What if Merkel had acted like Johnson against COVID-19? Insights from an Agent-based Model, Investigación Económica 80(317), 82-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fe.01851667p.2021.317.79301
  • Mellacher, P. and Scheuer, T. (2021): Wage Inequality, Labor Market Polarization and Skill-Biased Technological Change: An Evolutionary (Agent-Based) Approach. Computational Economics 58, 233–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-020-10026-0

Articles in edited volumes:

  • Mellacher, P. (2019): Die politische Ökonomik der (Re-)Privatisierung der Altersvorsorge. In: Richard Sturn, Nenad Pantelic (Hg.): Dem Markt vertrauen? Beiträge zur Tiefenstruktur neoliberaler Regulierung. Marburg. Metropolis. pp. 73-90.

Translations:

  • Joseph A. Schumpeter (2020): „Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie“, 10., vervollständigte Auflage. Mit einer Einführung von Heinz D. Kurz; übersetzt von Susanne Preiswerk (Teil I-IV) und Theresa Hager, Philipp Kohlgruber und Patrick Mellacher (Teil V). Tübingen. Narr Francke Atempto Verlag.
  • Richard Sturn and Rudolf Dujmovits (2020) “Public Finance”, ÖH Skripten.