Economic Adviser at Federal Department of Finance, Federal Finance Administration, Switzerland

Since 2002, Dr. Colombier works as a researcher and adviser for the Swiss Ministry of Finance (Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland). He graduated from University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1993 with a Master’s degree in economics. He was research assistant from 1994 to 2000 at the chair of public economics and business taxation of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, and from 2000 to 2002 at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

He obtained his doctorate in 1999. In 2010, he was appointed as a FiFo Policy Fellow at the FiFo – Institute for Public Economics of the University of Cologne, Germany. Dr. Colombier is specialized in the fields of public and health economics, and macroeconomics. In his PhD thesis, Dr. Colombier developed a consistently designed economic concept of public intermediate goods such as infrastructure or foundational research. He explores the economic impact of fiscal policy and questions surrounding fiscal sustainability. Related areas of his research are fiscal rules, Baumol’s cost disease, currency areas, the determinants of healthcare expenditure, and the economic impact and the fiscal sustainability of health systems.