Philippe Thalmann (born 11 June 1963 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Harvard-trained Swiss economist. He is a professor at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[1]
Career
Philippe Thalmann studied economics at the University of Lausanne. From 1986, he pursued a PhD at the Economics Department of Harvard University, which he received in June 1990.[2] He was an assistant to professor Lawrence H. Goulder at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[3] He returned to Switzerland in 1990, first as a post-doc at University of Geneva, then as an assistant professor at University of Lausanne.[4] He was hired as an associate professor at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in 1994. His group became the Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Economics in 2014.
Thalmann has been a member or chairman of many political and scientific committees, e.g., chairman of the Swiss federal housing commission (2008-2019),[5][6] member of the Advisory body on climate changes OcCC (2009-2021),[7][8][9] and member of the Federal Energy Research Commission CORE (since 2023).[10]
Research and teaching
Philippe Thalmann's research extends over a vast domain that can best be described as "Economics of the natural and built environment".[11][12][13][14][15]
Selected works - Monographs
Favarger, Philippe, et Philippe Thalmann, Les Secrets de l'Expertise Immobilière. Prix et Valeur [The Secrets of Property Valuation. Price and Value] Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2007, revised and augmented in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2017
Cuennet, Stéphane, Philippe Favarger et Philippe Thalmann, La Politique du Logement [Housing Policy], Collection Le Savoir Suisse, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2002
Thalmann, Philippe, Impôts Ecologiques. L'Exemple des Taxes CO2 [Green Taxes. The Example of Carbon Taxes], Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 1997
^Hofer, Julia (12 October 2022). "Rettet uns die Technik?". Beobachter (in German). pp. 82–84. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
^Magnolley, Julien (13 October 2022). "Construire plus petit, l'avenir?". Radio Suisse Romande 1 (Radio interview, Emission Tribu) (in French). Lausanne. Retrieved 25 February 2024.