Dr. Nicole Bellert

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Lecturer

Focus

Applied Statistics, Agentic AI, Microeconometrics, Industrial Organization, Statistical Programming (Java, Python, R, Matlab, Stata)

Teaching

• Smart Data Analytics for Financial Assets
• Empirical Methods in Economics
• Macroeconomics
• Quantitative Methods

Experience

• Association President
  Naturhort Tüfi
  01 / 2013 - 07 / 2018
• Software Engineer
  Bayerische Landesbank
  09 / 1999 - 06 / 2006

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Doctor of Science / Informatics
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2019 - 09 / 2026
• Master of Business Economics, Majoring in Information Systems
  University of Bamberg
  08 / 1993 - 07 / 1999

Continuing Education

• Nanodegree in Agentic AI For Financial Services
  Udacity
  2026
• Natural Language Processing Fundamentals (Certificate)
  ZHAW Life Sciences and Facility Management
  2021

Network

Membership of networks

• LinkedIn
• PhD Network in Data Science

Projects

• Sustainable Digital Finance / Team member / ongoing
• Quantifying Illegal Activity: Estimating Dark Rates and Predicting Offenses / Deputy project leader / completed
• Dark Rates in Crime / Project leader / completed
• Gamification: A browser-based Tool for Experiments / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Bellert, N. and Fauceglia, D. (2019) 'A practical routine to harmonize product classifications over time', International Economics, 160, pp. 84–89. doi: 10.1016/j.inteco.2019.07.005.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Bellert, N., Günster, A. and Kozbur, D. (2026) 'Estimating dark figures of crime', in Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), Philadelphia, USA, 3-5 January 2026. American Economic Association. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-37348.
• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2023) 'Simulating collusion : challenging conventional estimation methods', in 17th International Conference on Competition and Regulation (CRESSE), Ixia, Greece, 30 June - 2 July 2023. Competition & Regulation European Summer School and Conference. Available at: https://www.cresse.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023_ps12_pa4_Bellert.pdf.
• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2023) 'Simulating collusion – challenging conventional estimators', in 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, London, United Kingdom, 19-23 June 2023.

Other publications

Bellert, N. and Günster, A. M. (2026) 'Simulating collusion and enforcement', in 20th International Conference on Competition and Regulation (CRESSE), Kos, Greece, 3 - 5 July 2026. Conference on Competition and Regulation. Available at: https://www.cresse.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026_ps19_pa1_presentation.pdf.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2025) 'Estimating dark figures : an application to collusion', in 52nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Valencia, Spain, 28-30 August 2025.
• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2025) 'Estimating dark figures : an application to cybercrime', in 52nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Valencia, Spain, 28-30 August 2025.
• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2025) 'Quantifying illegal activity : estimating dark figures in cybercrime', in SSES Annual Congress, Zurich, Switzerland, 26-27 June 2025.
• Bellert, N. (2022) 'Estimating dark rates in collusion', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.
• Bellert, N. (2022) 'Estimating the dark rates of collusion', in Research Seminar Spring 2022, University of Zurich, 5 April 2022.
• Bellert, N., Günster, A. M. and Kozbur, D. (2022) 'Simulating collusion : challenging conventional estimation methods', in 49th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Vienna, Austria, 25-27 August 2022.
• Bellert, N. (2021) 'Simulating and estimating dark rates in collusion', in Research Seminar Spring 2021, University of Zurich, 17 May 2021.
• Bellert, N. (2021) 'Dark rate estimation in collusion', in IfI Doctoral Symposium, University of Zurich, 10 September 2021.

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