Paul Hofmarcher

Paul Hofmarcher is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, and affiliated with the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS). He holds a doctoral degree from WU Vienna and studied economics/mathematics at the University of Vienna.

Research Interests: Focus on Bayesian methods, text mining, economic growth, and statistical/machine learning applications. His work bridges econometrics and computational methods to analyze complex socio-economic phenomena like central bank communication and media politicization.

Recent Research Trends: Recent publications address central bank communication dynamics, EU policy discourse, and modeling techniques for high-dimensional data. He develops innovative methods like seeded Poisson factorization and temporal topic modeling to decode textual data in economics and politics.

Affiliations & Roles: Active in interdisciplinary research at SCEUS and maintains close ties with Vienna-based institutions. Supervises research projects on macroeconomic forecasting, credit risk assessment, and geriatric health analysis.

Professional Activities: Regularly contributes to academic journals like Journal of European Public Policy and Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Co-developed the bms R package for Bayesian model averaging.