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Department of Economics, HEC Lausanne
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 692 33 96
E-mail: simon.scheidegger@unil.ch
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland (2021-)
VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, UPenn (Spring term 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)
PAST POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland (2018-2020)
Senior Research Associate (Oberassistent), Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich (2017-2018)
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2015-2017)
Post Doc, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich (2012-2017)
Credit Suisse AG, Credit Risk Modeller (2010-2012)
EDUCATION OVERVIEW
PhD in theoretical physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, summa cum laude, 2010 (PhD thesis was awarded with the Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Science)
Master in physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, with distinction, 2007
Bachelor in physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2005
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Interests in computational economics and finance, machine learning, high-performance computing, climate change economics
Publications in economics and finance
Publications in computational science
NEWS
I am co-organizing a mini-workhop on Climate, Economics, and Climate Economics at UZH, on the 30th of June (jointly with D. Folini (ETHZ) and F. Kübler (UZH)).
"High-dimensional dynamic stochastic model representation" was accepted for publication at SIAM SISC (Feb 22)!
"Deep Equlibrium Nets" was accepted for publication at the IER (Jan 22)!
"Can today's and tomorrow's world uniformly gain from carbon taxation?" was featured in the NY Times (Nov. 1st, 2021).
Have economists have needlessly produced a climate war? (VoxEU Column)
Contributed a book chapter (jointly with L. Kotlikoff, F. Kübler, A. Polbin) entitled "Making carbon taxation a global win-win to the CEPR e-book "No Brainers and Low-Hanging Fruit in National Climate Policy"