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Amanda Dahlstrand

Amanda Dahlstrand’s research lies at the intersection of health, technology, labor, and development economics. Her work explores how digital technology transforms service delivery, especially in healthcare, with a focus on improving patient-provider matches, promoting efficiency, and considering equ…

Ana Costa-Ramón

Ana Costa-Ramón is an applied microeconomist specializing in the intersection of labor economics, health, gender, and education. Her research investigates critical challenges in child and youth development, including the effects of health shocks, the role of gender dynamics in household financial de…

Andreas I. Mueller

Professor Andreas I. Mueller specializes in macroeconomics and labor economics, with a central focus on business cycles, labor markets, unemployment insurance, and job search behavior. His work addresses critical issues such as understanding how labor markets adjust during economic downturns, the ro…

Armin Schmutzler

Armin Schmutzler's research centers on industrial organization and environmental economics, with an emphasis on microeconomic approaches to understanding competition, innovation, regulatory design, and sustainability. His work within industrial organization explores the dynamics of market structures…

Björn Bartling

Professor Björn Bartling specializes in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, with focal interest areas including Behavioral Economics, Economics of Institutions, and Organizational Economics. His research seeks to understand the role of social and moral motivations in economic contexts, often emph…

Carmen Villa

Carmen Villa’s research emphatically addresses issues at the intersection of child and youth development and public economics, with a specific interest in the economics of crime. Her work is situated within labor economics and examines policies and interventions aimed at improving educational outcom…

Christian Ewerhart

Christian Ewerhart’s research primarily explores the fields of game theory, information economics, and their applications in finance. His work often intersects with contract theory and economic theory, examining strategic behavior in contests, auctions, and other competitive settings. A key recurrin…

Christian Ruff

Christian Ruff's research centers on understanding the neural mechanisms underpinning decision-making, particularly in the domains of perception and behavior. His work probes how diverse cognitive and social factors influence decisions and what neural processes govern motivation, learning, and norm …

Damian Kozbur

Damian Kozbur is a Professor of Econometrics whose research primarily focuses on the development and application of statistical methods for econometrics. His work explores high-dimensional statistical inference, model selection, sensitivity analysis, and methodological issues in empirical econometri…

David Dorn

David Dorn’s research addresses some of the most pressing questions at the intersection of labor economics, international trade, technological change, and inequality. His work explores how globalization, technological innovation, and structural economic changes impact labor markets, with a particula…

David Hémous

David Hémous’s research primarily investigates the intersection of macroeconomics, innovation, international trade, and environmental economics. Core themes in his work include the role of technological change in shaping economic growth, income inequality, and labor markets. His recent contributions…

David Yanagizawa-Drott

David Yanagizawa-Drott is a Professor of Development and Emerging Markets at the University of Zurich and affiliated with the UBS Center for Economics in Society. His work spans several domains within development economics, political economy, and the application of artificial intelligence to societa…

Dina Pomeranz

Dina Pomeranz’s research centers on applied microeconomics, with a specific emphasis on development economics, public finance, and impact evaluations. Her work primarily investigates the design of effective public policies in developing countries, focusing on topics such as tax enforcement, public p…

Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr's research encompasses core themes in experimental, behavioral, and neuroeconomics. His work investigates the proximate and evolutionary origins of human altruism, the interaction of social norms and preferences with strategic behaviors, and the psychological foundations of incentives and…

Florian Scheuer

Florian Scheuer's research centers on issues at the intersection of public economics, taxation, inequality, political economy, and macroeconomics. He investigates how public policies, especially tax policies, influence wealth distribution, labor market dynamics, and entrepreneurial behavior. A recur…

Gregory Crawford

Gregory Crawford's research centers on empirical industrial organization and the economics of markets, with a significant focus on competition policy, media economics, and the governance of digital platforms. His work interrogates core questions about market power, welfare effects of vertical and ho…

Ingvild Almås

Ingvild Almås is an internationally recognized economist whose work centers on understanding economic inequalities and decision-making processes. Her research spans development economics and behavioral economics, focusing on topics such as income inequality, fairness views and redistributive policie…

Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner, PhD, is an expert in economic theory whose research spans game theory, behavioral economics, and information economics. His work focuses on understanding decision-making under uncertainty, the behavioral underpinnings of economic choices, and the coordination challenges in dynamic sys…

Joachim Voth

Hans-Joachim Voth, the UBS Foundation Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, focuses on a diverse range of topics at the intersection of economic history, political economy, cultural economics, and financial markets. His research seeks to answer large, interdisciplinary questions about …

Josef Zweimüller

Josef Zweimüller specializes in Public and Labor Economics, with a strong focus on understanding the interplay between growth, inequality, and labor market dynamics. His work examines the effects of welfare state policies, such as unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and parental leave, on …

Lorenzo Casaburi

Lorenzo Casaburi, the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Zurich, focuses on the interrelated fields of development economics, political economy, behavioral economics, and public finance. His research primarily centers on economic development challenges i…

Marek Pycia

Marek Pycia is a leading researcher in market design and organizational economics, areas of economics that study how to design rules and mechanisms to improve market efficiency, fairness, and functionality. His work addresses the design of auction systems, matching markets (e.g., school choice, refu…

Martina Pons

Martina Pons, an Assistant Professor of Econometrics in the Digital Age at the University of Zurich, specializes in econometrics with a particular emphasis on panel data, distributional methods, and inequality. Her research agenda reflects a commitment to understanding economic phenomena through adv…

Mathias Hoffmann

Mathias Hoffmann is a leading scholar in macroeconomics, international trade, and financial markets, focused particularly on the macroeconomic implications of international financial integration and the structural interplay between asset markets and the broader economy. His research primarily invest…

Maya Eden

Maya Eden, Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, conducts research at the intersection of macroeconomics, normative economics, welfare economics, and economic policy. Her work highlights key economic and social challenges such as inequality, intergenerational welfare, job polarization,…

Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf's research focuses on advanced econometric methods and their applications, particularly in financial econometrics. His primary areas of interest include nonparametric inference methods, multiple testing procedures, the estimation of large-dimensional covariance matrices, and application…

Michel Maréchal

Michel Maréchal, a Professor of Economics at the University of Zürich, specializes in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, focusing on moral and ethical behavior, social norms, and the economics of crime. His work interrogates fundamental questions regarding how beliefs, preferences, and instituti…

Nick Netzer

Nick Netzer is a Professor of Economics whose research primarily revolves around decision theory, game theory, and behavioral economics, focusing on the theoretical foundations of human behavior in uncertain environments. His work aims to understand how decision processes affect the quality of daily…

Philippe Tobler

Philippe Tobler focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, reward learning, and social behavior, particularly within the interdisciplinary field of neuroeconomics. A central theme of Tobler’s work is investigating how the brain processes reward-related parameters like risk, delay, …

Rainer Winkelmann

Rainer Winkelmann’s research is centered around micro-econometrics, with particular emphasis on models for discrete and panel data. He applies these methods to address questions in social policy, such as the intersection of work, family, and well-being, alongside healthcare demand and labor economic…

Ralph Ossa

Ralph Ossa is a prominent economist whose work focuses on international trade, economic geography, and economic development, with a strong emphasis on topics of policy relevance. His areas of research include analyzing the gains and costs of trade, the dynamics of trade wars, the welfare implication…

Roberto Weber

Roberto Weber’s research primarily explores topics in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Decision Making, and Organizational Economics, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between institutions, organizational structures, and individual behavior. His work seeks to uncover the mechanisms d…

Ronak Jain

Ronak Jain is an Assistant Professor of Economics of Development and Child Welfare at the University of Zurich. His research sits at the intersection of development economics and behavioral economics, concentrating on questions related to child welfare, informal labor markets, and the role of human …

Sandro Ambühl

Sandro Ambühl's research primarily centers on the intersection of experimental economics, behavioral and experimental finance, and behavioral welfare economics. His work investigates how individuals make decisions in financial markets and explores how economic policies can be designed to improve wel…

Thomas Graeber

Thomas Graeber's research centers on the cognitive foundations of economic behavior, particularly how individuals make decisions in uncertain environments. He is deeply interested in both behavioral and experimental economics, exploring phenomena like reference dependence, cognitive biases in judgme…

Timo Boppart

Timo Boppart is a Professor of Economics whose research primarily revolves around macroeconomic topics. He focuses on issues such as economic growth, firm dynamics, labor supply, and development. His work explores fundamental questions about how economies evolve, the role of firms and innovation wit…

Todd Hare

Todd Hare is a prominent researcher in neuroeconomics and behavioral economics, with a central focus on understanding the neural mechanisms of decision-making. His research aims to elucidate how the human brain evaluates choices involving various forms of rewards—such as primary, monetary, or social…

Ulf Zölitz

Ulf Zölitz is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development. His research focuses on the economics of education, child and youth development, and labor economics, with a strong emphasis on applied microeconomics. His core quest…

Ulrich Woitek

Ulrich Woitek is a Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich with research interests centered on anthropometrics and business cycles. His work bridges the fields of macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic history, aiming to uncover historical patterns and their implications for welfare, …