Enzo Simier

Applied Economics · Industrial Organization

M.Sc. candidate at HEC Montréal studying how pricing, information, and metering change household behavior in Québec.

Portrait of Enzo Simier

About

I'm interested in questions where microeconomic theory meets institutional reality: how people respond to price signals, how market definition shapes merger outcomes, and why some policy nudges work better than others.

My work spans residential water metering in Québec, merger review at Canada's Competition Bureau, and economic consulting at KPMG. I'm looking for roles where applied economics helps shape strategy, policy, or product decisions.

Work

Competition Bureau

Intern, Mergers Directorate

Summer 2025
  • Analyzed candidate markets using shares, HHIs, diversion logic, and first-pass unilateral-effects screens.
  • Drafted technical notes translating economic evidence on concentration and substitution for senior economists.

KPMG Canada

Intern, Economic Consulting & Strategy

Summer 2024
  • Built economic-impact and cost-benefit models for public projects, quantifying GDP, employment, and fiscal effects.
  • Produced executive briefings that translated technical analysis into clear recommendations for public-sector clients.

HEC Montréal

Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics

Fall 2023
  • Led weekly review sessions on growth, business cycles, and monetary policy for undergraduate students.
  • Prepared and graded problem sets on IS-LM, the Phillips curve, and the Solow model.

National Bank Accelerator

Business Development Intern

Summer 2023
  • Designed go-to-market and KPI frameworks for early-stage startups in the accelerator portfolio.
  • Completed market sizing and competitor scans to support strategic decision-making for founding teams.

Front Row Ventures

Business Development Analyst

2021 to 2022
  • Built a fund CRM to systematize deal flow and portfolio tracking.
  • Screened startups and prepared concise investment memos for the team.

Skills

Behavioral & IO

Market structure, pricing, screening, and behavioral policy design.

Quant Tools

Python, pandas, statsmodels, R, Stata, advanced Excel, and LaTeX.

Communication

Executive briefs, data visualization, stakeholder synthesis, and bilingual EN/FR work.

Domain Context

Water systems, municipal policy, competition questions, and public-sector strategy.

Education

HEC Montréal

M.Sc. in Applied Economics · 2024 to 2026 expected

Thesis on residential water metering, pricing design, and household response in Québec.

HEC Montréal

B.B.A. in Economics and Finance · 2020 to 2024

Graduated with distinction. Bilingual profile in English and French.

Research

Thesis in progress

Water metering, pricing, and household response in Québec.

I'm studying whether residential water metering materially changes consumption, and when price or informational cues are strong enough to move household behavior.

Lens: public economics, behavioral response, and infrastructure pricing.

Supervisors: Justin Leroux and Jean-Luc Martel.

Library

A small shelf of books I keep returning to when thinking about industry, institutions, and strategy.

Chip War by Chris Miller cover

Chip War

Chris Miller · 2022

A sharp reminder that industrial policy, supply chains, and market power are never abstract.

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Material World

Ed Conway · 2023

Useful for staying grounded in the physical systems underneath modern growth stories.

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Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal · Stripe Press

Still one of the clearest books on incentives, maintenance, and coordination in open systems.

Churchill: Walking with Destiny cover

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts · 2018

A useful study in leadership, timing, and decision-making under extreme constraint.

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Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Adrian Goldsworthy · 2006

A study in ambition, institutions, coalition-building, and political timing.