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Dear Reader,
We are pleased to send you the latest newsletter of the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich. We hope you enjoy reading it! Should you ever want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here.
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| New Hires |
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Benjamin Arold
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| Benjamin Arold has joined our Center as a postdoctoral researcher, after completing his Ph.D. in Economics at LMU Munich and the ifo Institute for Economic Research. Benjamin is specialized in research at the intersection of labor economics and public economics with a special focus on education and political economy. |
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Anton Boltachka
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| Anton Boltachka is a scientific assistant with an M.A. in Applied Economics from American University and an M.A. in Economics and Management from Belarusian State University. His research focuses on development economics, applied microeconomics, and the political economy of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. |
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Victor Gamarra
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| Victor Gamarra, who has a Master in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, has recently started his position as a scientific assistant at our Center. Victor's work explores the role of natural resources on local economic development, labor markets, and incumbent politician behavior in developing countries. |
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Jairo Gudiño
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| Jairo Gudiño has joined the CLE as a scientific assistant. He holds a Master in Economics from Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). The quantitative researcher and economist is specialized in trading and political / complexity science, e.g. social and computational systems, financial stability, and philosophy. |
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Peiyao Sun
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| Scientific assistant Peiyao Sun has an M.A. in International Trade, Finance, and Development from the Barcelona School of Economics and an M.A. in Social Science with a major in Economics from the University of Chicago. She analyzes international macroeconomics, econometrics, and data science. |
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Alessandro Tacconelli
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| Alessandro Tacconelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Law & Economics. He holds a Law Degree from Bocconi University and a Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Alessandro’s research focuses on behavioral and experimental law & economics. |
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| Research Highlights |
| Published in Journals |
| • | | The Rights and Wrongs of Folk Beliefs About Speech: Implications for Content Moderation (Aileen Nielsen), UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, Vol 27(2), 118–168 (2022) |
| • | | Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts (Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen & Sergio Galletta), Economica, Vol 89(354), 364–376 (2022) |
| • | | Social Preferences or Sacred Values? Theory and Evidence of Deontological Motivations (Daniel L. Chen & Martin Schonger), Science Advances, Vol 8(19), online (2022) |
| • | | Nachhaltigkeitsziele in der Wirtschaftspolitik – juristische Überlegungen (Stefan Bechtold), Wirtschaftsdienst, Vol 102(5), 334–337 (2022) |
| • | | The Effects of Competition Law on Inequality – An Incidental By-Product or a Path for Societal Change? (Ariel Ezrachi, Amit Zac & Christopher Decker), Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, jnac011 (2022) |
| • | | Competition Law Enforcement and Household Inequality in the United Kingdom (Christopher Decker, Amit Zac, Carola Casti, Amédée von Moltke & Ariel Ezrachi), Journal for Competition Law and Economics, nhac006 (2022) |
| • | | Binned Scatterplots with Marginal Histograms: Binscatterhist (Matteo Pinna), The Stata Journal, 22(2), 430–445 (2022) |
| • | | iMessage: Poaching- und reverse-Engineering-Risiko bedeutet nicht unbedingt Geschäftsgeheimnis (Christophe Gösken), iusNet Intellectual Property 3/2022, online (2022) |
| • | | We and It: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Experimental Evidence on How Humans Interact with Machines (Maria Chugonova & Daniela Sele), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 99, 101897 (2022) |
| • | | Competition Law and Economic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of the US Model of Law (Amit Zac), Journal of International Economic Law, Vol 25(3), 484–500 (2022) |
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| Published in Conference Proceedings |
| • | | Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data (Dominik Stammbach, Maria Antoniak & Elliott Ash), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop of Narrative Understanding (WNU2022), 47–56 (2022) |
| • | | Data-Centric Factors in Algorithmic Fairness (Nianyun Li, Naman Goel & Elliott Ash), AIES '22: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 396–410 (2022) |
| • | | DocSCAN: Unsupervised Text Classification via Learning from Neighbors (Dominik Stammbach & Elliott Ash), Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022), 21–28 (2022) |
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| New Working Papers |
| • | | Fighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation (Alena Bochenkova, Paolo Buonanno & Sergio Galletta), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 05/2022 |
| • | | Bootstrapping Science? The Impact of a “Return Human Capital” Programme on Chinese Research Productivity (Elliott Ash, David Cai, Mirko Draca & Shaoyu Liu), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 06/2022 |
| • | | A Dataset for Detecting Real-World Environmental Claims (Dominik Stammbach, Nicolas Webersinke, Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus & Markus Leippold), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 07/2022 |
| • | | Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education (Benjamin W. Arold), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 08/2022 |
| • | | The Too Accurate Algorithm (Aileen Nielsen), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 09/2022 |
| • | | Can a Computer Invade Your Privacy? An Experimental Matchup of Algorithmic and Human Surveillance (Aileen Nielsen), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 10/2022 |
| • | | Experimental Evidence on the Fairness of Medical Data Sales (Aileen Nielsen), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 11/2022 |
| • | | Private Sector Regulation Increases Contact Tracing App Uptake: A Lesson for Vaccines and Digital Health Passports (Aileen Nielsen), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 12/2022 |
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| CLE Tidbits |
| • | | In September, Prof. Alexander Stremitzer was invited to UCLA Law School as a Visiting Professor and Senior Scholar in Residence.
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| • | | Organized by the CLE & RegHorizon, the AI Policy Summit 2022 continues the dialogue with experts to explore the role of public policy in minimizing the risks of artificial intelligence and enhancing its adoption. The AI Policy Summit will take place online from October 10 to 12 and in hybrid format on October 13 at ETH Zurich. It is co-located with the ETH AI Center’s AI+X Summit on October 14 and will host more than 60 confirmed speakers, 7 panels, and 5+ keynotes. Part of the AI Policy Summit is also the Workshop in AI+Economics, held at ETH Zurich on October 14 and 15, 2022. The workshop is organized by Prof. Elliott Ash and Sergio Galletta from the CLE. Keynote talks on AI-for-policy research will be held by Prof. Josh Blumenstock (Berkeley) and Prof. Daniel Björkegren (Brown University).
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| • | | Together with Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (New York University), Prof. Stefan Bechtold from the CLE organizes the joint ETH/NYU School of Law Conference "Mapping Law, Business & Behavior in the Online World: An Empirical Perspective". The conference will take place at NYU School of Law in November 2022. Its goal is to bring together scholars from law, social science, computer science, and data science who are conducting empirical research on privacy, online contracts, consumer behavior, machine learning, and related fields in the online world.
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| • | | Amit Zac, postdoc at the CLE, has been granted a two-year SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project "Automated Enforcement of Privacy Regulation". His projects builds upon recent computer science methods to automatically detect violations of privacy laws in the privacy policies of websites and explores the possible causes and solutions to the observed compliance gap.
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| • | | Lena Song, a joint postdoc fellow at Columbia University and ETH Zurich, will visit the CLE during the month of November. She studies media and information technologies, with a focus on their relationship to diversity and inequality. In the fall of 2023, Lena Song will join the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor.
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| • | | Together with CLE postdoc Filippo Lancieri, we were pleased to read that the Economist's column The Rise of the Borderless Trustbuster refers to research by him, Prof. Adam Chilton (Chicago) and Prof. Anu Bradford (Columbia) on the international spread of antitrust statutes.
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| • | | Listen up! The recent podcast Econ's Brush with the Law on Planet Money was based on the study Ideas have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice by Prof. Elliott Ash, Prof. Suresh Naidu (Columbia) and Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse).
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| Vlog & Podcast Series |
| We are excited to present the new videos of our CLE Vlog & Podcast Series: |
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| Prof. Daniel Markovits (Yale) about the Concept of Democratizing Behavioral Economics |
| In this episode, Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich) talks to Prof. Daniel Markovits (Yale) about a new approach to behavioral economics called democratic law and economics, a concept developed by Markovits and Prof. Zachary D. Liscow (Yale). |
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| Vlog with Prof. Sarath Sanga (Northwestern) on the Origins of the Market for Corporate Law in the USA |
| In this episode of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. Sarath Sanga (Northwestern) talks with Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich) about his paper The Origins of the Market for Corporate Law, a study of the market for corporate charters and the emergence of Delaware as the leader of this market. |
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| Career Moves |
| We proudly announce the following career moves of CLE team members: |
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| David Cai |
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| David Cai has recently started a M.Res/Ph.D. in Economics & Management at the London School of Economics. Before that, he was a scientific assistant to Prof. Elliott Ash for three years. |
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| Nianyun Li |
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| Following her employment as a scientific assistant at the Center for Law & Economics, Nianyun Li has successfully joined Pictet Asset Management in Geneva as a data scientist. |
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| Swagatam Sinha |
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| After completing his Ph.D. thesis on the law & economics of open and collaborative innovation, Swagatam Sinha is now in New York to start his new position as an economist at Keystone Strategy. |
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| Outlook: Conferences & Workshops |
| The Center for Law & Economics organizes conferences and workshops on a regular basis. Here is a list of our next events: |
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Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation
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AI Policy Summit
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Workshop in AI+Economics
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ETH/NYU School of Law Conference
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November 2022
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