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CONTACT
Department of Economics, HEC Lausanne
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 692 33 96
E-mail: simon.scheidegger@unil.ch
CURRENT POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland
Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE (2025-)
VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, UPenn (Jan-June 2023)
Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT, Sloan School of Management, Finance (Oct. - Nov. 2019)
Visiting Faculty, Cowles Foundation, Economics Department, Yale University (Jan. - Feb. 2019)
Visiting Faculty, Cowles Foundation, Economics Department, Yale University (Aug. - Oct. 2018)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:
Associate Editor at the Journal of Financial Econometrics (Term 2023-2025)
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Interests Computational finance and economics, Deep learning, climate change economics, machine learning applied to economics and finance, high-performance computing, macro-finance
Publications in finance and economics
Publications in computational science
NEWS
"Machine Learning for Dynamic Incentive Problems" conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies (joint work with Philipp Renner)
New working paper: "Using Machine Learning to Compute Constrained Optimal Carbon Tax Rules" (joint work with F. Kübler and O. Surbek)
I'll be teaching a mini-course on solving IAMs with deep learning at CEMRACS2026 (July 13th - 17th, 2026).
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