Prof. Dr. Massimo Filippini

Massimo Filippini is director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zürich. He has held a dual professorship in public economics and energy economics at ETH Zürich and the University of Lugano since October 1999.

Professor Filippini was born in 1963. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich. He has been a research fellow at the Economics Department of Harvard University and visiting researcher at the University of York, University of British Columbia and at the J.F.K. School of Government of the Harvard University. He completed the requirements for his postdoctorate degree "Habilitation" at the University of Zurich in 1996 and was awarded the title of Professor (Titularprofessor) in economics at the University of Zurich in 2003.

The main areas of research of Professor Filippini are the empirical analysis of energy demand, the economics of energy efficiency, the regulation and deregulation of the energy markets, the measurement of the productive efficiency of public firms, fiscal federalism and the empirical analysis of the demand for health care services.

Massimo Filippini is a member of several editorial boards. He has also published several books, book chapters and more than fifty articles in peer-reviewed journals on energy economics and policy, transport economics, health economics and the economics of public services.