Dr. Matthias van den Heuvel is an Associate with the Brattle Group in Paris. He holds a PhD in economics from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and did his Master's at the Graduate Institute Geneva and Yale University.

Dr. van den Heuvel specializes in the analysis of complex economic issues in international arbitration and court litigations, with a focus on environmental and energy economics. He has worked on a broad range on matters, from the valuation of energy assets to the estimation of the economic benefit resulting from non-compliance with environmental regulations.

His academic research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and has helped inform policy-making. Notably, two of his papers were cited in the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors’ 2024 Economic Report of the President, in the chapter on “Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition.”

Prior to joining the Brattle Group, Matthias worked as an economist for a private bank and for the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Research

"The Role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy: Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble", (2023), Energy Economics, with D. Popp.

• Cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President (Chapter 6)
• Featured in the NBER Bulletin on Entrepreneurship.
• Invited to present to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
• Column published in VoxEU.
• Discussed in MIT Technology Review: Six takeaways from a climate-tech boom and Climate tech is back—and this time, it can’t afford to fail
• Recipient of the 2022 Student Awards of the Swiss Association for Energy Economics

"Heard the News? Environmental Policy and Clean Investments", (2024), Journal of Public Economics, with J. Noailly and L. Nowzohour.

• Environmental Policy Index made publicly available.

"Does Environmental Policy Uncertainty Hinder Investments Towards a Low-Carbon Economy?", (2022), NBER Working Paper, with J. Noailly and L. Nowzohour.

• Cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President (Chapter 6)
• Invited to present to the European Securities and Markets Authority.
• Column published in VoxEU.
• Environmental Policy Uncertainty Index made publicly available.

"COVID-19: Insights from innovation economists", (2020), Science and Public Policy, with G. Younes, et al.

• Column published in VoxEU.

"Certification or Cash Prize: The Heterogeneous Effect of Venture Competitions", (2022), available at SSRN, with G. de Rassenfosse.

• Revise and Resubmit at Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Teaching

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

2021 - MGT 581 Introduction to Econometrics (TA)

• Received the 2021 EPFL CDM Best Teaching Assistant Award

2020 - MGT 581 Introduction to Econometrics (TA)

2019 - MGT 303 Economics of Ideas (TA)