Research
Since political economics using standard tools reach their limits, I combine modelling political campaigns or democratic processes in general with network theory and approaches from physics. The purpose of my studies is to explain observed phenomena in political campaigns and assess their outcomes. Here, I show projects that were part of my dissertation in economics.
Additionally, I present my research on the field biophysics I made during my master studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and University of Milan.
List of publications
Working paper: M. Hoferer, K. Mepham, and A. Kekkonen, Affective polarization on Reddit. [GitHub]
Submitted to Journal: M. Hoferer and H. Gersbach, The attractor model of political competition. [GitHub]
M. Hoferer, L. Böttcher, H. J. Herrmann, and H. Gersbach, The impact of technologies in political campaigns, Physica A 538, 122795 (2020), arXiv:1909.07644.
M. Hoferer, S. Bonfanti, A. Taloni, C. A. M. La Porta, and S. Zapperi, Protein driven lipid domain nucleation in biological membranes, Phys. Rev. E 100, 042410 (2019), arXiv:1909.08659. [GitHub]