UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Zurich
David Hémous is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Zurich. He is a macroeconomist working on economic growth, environmental economics and international trade. His research explores the effect of technology on income inequality and the role played by innovation in the design of climate policy. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, or the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics among others. He is the recipient of an ERC starting grant on Automation and was awarded the European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty in 2022.
