Hi there and welcome!
My name is Joël Bühler (I am not picky about umlauts and pronunciation, so no worries) and I am a PhD student in the economics programme at University of Barcelona, at the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics.
My research interests center around ecology and technology, and how different institutions impact these crucial factors of human development. If you were to force me to subscribe to a subdiscipline, I would probably see myself most as an environmental and/or public economist. I also have a strong interest in heterodox economics, particularly Eco-Marxism, which in my opinion offers a very challenging theoretical perspective.
I spend a lot of my spare time doing sports like cycling and (cross-country) skiing.
Back in my hometown Liestal (Switzerland), I used to be a local parliamentarian for the Social Democrats and to blog about local and national politics; I will keep these posts (in German) online for archival reasons!
All my best,
Joël
Blog
- Power to the People: The Local Economic Effects of Renewable Energy Communities in the UK
- Taking Back Control of Urban Water Distribution: The Effect of Remunicipalization on Water Bills
- Privatisation and remunicipalisation of urban water in Catalonia: between monopolisation, state and the commons
- Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services
- Does It Take More Than One Village? The Effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Waste Separation
- The effect of Door-to-Door on separate collection of plastic packaging: evidence from Catalonia