Random Activities

OLDER ACTIVITIES

• I was hosting the Econometrics Society Summerschool DSE on the focal topic "Deep Learning for Solving and Estimating Dynamic Models", (August 21.-26. 2023, Lausanne).

• I was 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)

• I 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"

• I was Co-organizing the workshop at UZH on "Climate, Economics, and Climate Economics" (30.6. 2022 -- jointly with F. Kübler & D. Folini)

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

• 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).

• 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.