Nicolas Greber

Economist

Biography

Nicolas Greber is an economist at Swiss Economics. His work focuses on modeling and simulating energy markets, in particular the evaluation of market designs, incentive mechanisms, and regulatory interventions. He uses agent-based models and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to realistically map complex interactions between market players. At the same time, he is pursuing a PhD in Management & Economics at the University of Zurich, specializing in energy economics. Nicolas holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Bern (specializing in industrial economics) and a master's degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen, specializing in digitalization and data analysis. He also contributes his expertise to the Swiss Economics blockchain team.

Work experience

Economist, Swiss Economics (2022 - )
Analyst, Swiss Economics (2021 - 2022)
Accountant, Elektro Schneider & Partner AG (2017 - 2020)

Education

Dr. oec. (PhD), University of Zürich (2023 – )
M.A. in Economics, University of St. Gallen (2020 - 2022)
B.Sc. in Economics, University of Bern (2016 – 2019)

Expertise

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Projects (selection)

Exploring Potential Innovations for the Folks Finance Lending Protocol (2025).
What innovative features or mechanisms could be adopted by Folks Finance to enhance its lending protocol? Client: Folks Finance.
Research and consulting project for Polygon (2024 – 2025).
Which economic structure is best suited for the blockchain interoperability protocol? Client: Polygon.
Nouns DAO: Alternative Fork Design (2024). Can an alternative fork design in Nouns DAO reduce the speculative participation of arbitrageurs? Client: Nouns DAO.
Developments in the electricity market (2024 – ). How has the Swiss electricity market developed in recent years? Client: Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
Price Formation on the Swiss Forward Market (2023 – 2024). How is the Swiss forward market price for electricity deliveries determined? Does the price formation meet expectations? Are there indications of market power held by individual players? How could the Swiss wholesale price be reduced?
Revenue opportunities Swiss hydropower (2023). What are the revenue opportunities for different hydropower plants in Switzerland? What role do the various sales options such as spot, futures, ancillary services, capacity and proof-of-origin markets play? Client: Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).

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Market Power in Energy Platforms and Artificial Intelligence (2023 – ). From an economics perspective, what challenges do energy platforms pose? What role does artificial intelligence play in this context? Client: Bundesamt für Energie (BFE).

Support for the Football Prediction Platform Pooky Labs (2022). A new collaboration between the Center for Cryptoeconomics and Pooky Labs to create the world's first multi-sport prediction game in a web3 environment.

Measures against high energy prices (2022). What measures are being discussed at EU and Swiss level to combat high energy prices? Which of these are relevant for Switzerland? What measures could Switzerland take? Client: Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE).

Token economics for an NFT launchpad and trading platform (2022). How to allocate and distribute the native token of the NFT lauchpad and trading platfrom Meme Cake? Client: Meme Cake.

Swiss Economics establishes a strategic partnership with Folks Finance (2022 – 2023). Swiss Economics' Center for Cryptoeconomics cryptecon is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Folks Finance – a lending protocol on the Algorand Blockchain. Cryptecon will review the economic model of the protocol. Client: Blockchain Italia.

Tokenomics and Protocol Design for Folks Finance (2021 – 2022). Folks Finance is a lending protocol on the Algorand Blockchain. The Center for Cryptoeconomics started a strategic partnership to review the economic model of the protocol. Client: Folks Finance.

Decentralized option platform (2021 – 2023). What are the optimal set of parameters of a DeFi protocol mechanism that offers put options to its users? Client: Bumper.

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Publications (selection)

Trinkner Urs, Eschenbaum Nicolas, Greber Nicolas, Fuchs Alexander (2023). Revenue opportunities and marketing costs of hydropower. Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
Greber Nicolas, de Luze Romain, Hafner Matthias, Beccuti Juan, Biondi Benedetto, Katten Giddon, Riccobene Michelangelo, Arrigoni Alberto (2023). DeFi Lending Platform Liquidity Risk: The Example of Folks Finance. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 6(1).
Trinkner Urs, Eschenbaum Nicolas, de Luze Romain, Apreda Luca, Greber Nicolas (2022). Policy Measures against high Energy Prices. Bundesamt für Energie (BFE).

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