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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 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 ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland (2018-2020)

• Senior Research Associate, 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)

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

My CV can be found here:

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

My Publications

NEWS

• I am organizing the workshop at UNIL on "Can economic policy mitigate climate change?" (21.10. & 22.10. -- jointly with F. Kübler & D. Folini) -- Register now!

• 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"

OLDER THINGS

• I was teaching a mini-course on "Deep Equilibrium Nets & Deep Structural Estimation" at the Econometric Society Summer school on Dynamic Structural Estimation (16.8. - 22.8.2021).

• Is carbon taxation fair? An opinion piece, published in Le Temps (with Kenza Benhima, Mathieu Grobéty, Aleksandra Malova)

• I was teaching Deep Learning (a 2 day module at the CSCS-USI Summer school on HPC, 19.7. - 30.7.2021).

• I was teaching Deep Learning (a 2 day module at the CSCS-USI Summer school on HPC, 13.7. - 24.7.2020).

• Deep Equilibrium Nets code - now publicly available from this repository!

• The press article here nicely discusses our paper on "Pareto-improving carbon risk taxation"

• I organized the remote seminar series on Computational Economics and Finance (jointly with Felix Kübler).

• Cancelled due to COVID-19: Econometric Society Summer School and conference in Dynamic Structural Econometrics on "Methodology and applications in environmental economics and climate change" at UZH (June 15-21th, 2020).

• The press article here nicely discusses our paper "Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win".

• Jointly with Felix Kübler, I was co-organizing a workshop on "How do we tackle climate change uncertaintly" at UZH (October 4th, 2019).

• I was co-organizing the 15th Dynare Conference at HEC Lausanne (September 9th - September 10th, 2019 ).

• I was co-organizing the OSE Bootcamp at the University of Chicago (July 1st - August 9th, 2019).

• Jointly with Houhuan Fu, I was co-chairing the PASC19 conference at ETH Zürich (July 12th - July 14th, 2019).

• The article "Economists cash in on efficient high-performance computing method" nicely features the research of my colleagues and myself.

• The article "Der kurze Weg von der Astrophysik zu den Finanzmärkten" features some of my work in astrophysics.