Adrien Bilal

Adrien Bilal is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and an associate professor of environmental social sciences. Before joining Stanford, he taught at Harvard University. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2020 and previously studied at the Paris School of Economics and École Polytechnique, where he majored in mathematics and physics.

His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, climate economics, and spatial and labor economics. He studies how climate change affects aggregate growth and regional inequalities, as well as how these effects interact with public policies. His work has been published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Econometrica.

Among his recent contributions is “The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature” (with Diego Känzig), which shows that the economic effects of global warming could be significantly greater than previously estimated—with a potential loss of 23% of global GDP per degree of warming. In Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States, he highlights how the interaction between anticipatory behavior and capital investment shapes the regional and aggregate impacts of climate change.