Marius Brülhart is a Swiss economist and professor of economics at the University of Lausanne.
[6] He has advised a number of policy-making organizations, including the World Bank, the European Commission, the OECD, and numerous Swiss government bodies.
[8] During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was a member of the Swiss National Covid-19 Science Taskforce, whose economics group he chaired in 2021.
[12] In the 2000s, he focused on topics in economic geography, including the measurement of industry-level spatial concentration,[13] growth-effects of country-level agglomeration patterns,[14] impacts of industrial agglomeration on local taxation,[15] and local economic effects of trade liberalization.
[20] During the Covid-19 pandemic, Brülhart and his coauthors pioneered the use helpline data as a real-time measure of population-level mental and social distress.