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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
11/2025: "Machine Learning for Dynamic Incentive Problems" conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies (joint work with Philipp Renner)
06/2025: 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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