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Dear Reader,
We are pleased to send you the latest newsletter of the Center for Law & Economics (CLE) at ETH Zurich. We hope you enjoy reading it! Should you ever want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here.
Kind regards,
Center for Law & Economics (CLE) |
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| Academic Guests / New Hires |
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Holger Spamann
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| We are pleased that Prof. Holger Spamann, the Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will be a Senior Distinguished Fellow at our Center from March to June 2023. His research focuses on the law & economics of corporate governance and financial markets, judicial behavior, and comparative law. |
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Philine Widmer
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| Philine Widmer has recently started her position as a postdoctoral researcher at the CLE. She is about to finish her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of St.Gallen. In her research, she primarily analyzes political, media, and development economics, by applying methods from econometrics and computer science. |
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| Research Highlights |
| Published in Journals |
| • | | Aspirational Rules (Alexander Stremitzer), Journal of Legal Studies, 51(2), 427–453 (2022) |
| • | | Reference Price Shifts and Customer Antagonism: Evidence from Reviews for Online Auctions (Tobias Gesche), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 31(3), 558–578 (2022) |
| • | | Designing Remedies for Digital Markets: The Interplay Between Antitrust and Regulation (Filippo Lancieri & Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto), Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 18(3), 613–669 (2022) |
| • | | Cable News and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake (Matteo Pinna, Léo Picard & Christoph Gössmann), Scientific Reports, 12, 16804 (2022) |
| • | | The Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the United States (Filippo Lancieri & Luigi Zingales), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, October 6, 2022 |
| • | | The Teaching of Evolution Theory Shapes Students’ Beliefs and Choices (Benjamin W. Arold), VOX – CEPR Policy Portal, October 20, 2022 |
| • | | Vaccine Passports as a Constitutional Right (Kevin Cope, Ilya Somin & Alexander Stremitzer), Arizona State Law Review, 54(1), 25–102 (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, 18(4), 905–935 (2022) |
| • | | The Dominance of Skill in Online Poker (Jérôme Hergueux & Gabriel Smagghue), International Review of Law & Economics, 106119 (2022) |
| • | | Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts (Moritz Osnabrügge, Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli), Political Analysis, 31(1), 59–80 (2023) |
| • | | Do School Curricula Matter to Students in the Long Run? The Case of Teaching the Theory of Evolution or Creationism in the United States (Benjamin W. Arold), CESifo EconPol Forum 24(1), 35–37 (2023) |
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| New Working Papers |
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| CLE Tidbits |
| • | | In January 2023, Prof. Alexander Stremitzer from the CLE was appointed as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School to teach a Contract Design class during the 2023 Winter Term.
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| • | | In January, Ayaka Suzuki and Alana Poole from the United Nations' Office of the Secretary-General visited the CLE. The UN delegation explored avenues for deeper collaboration, focusing on the CLE’s current research project with the UN, the SDG Monitor, developed and led by Christoph Goessmann (CLE). Besides meetings with ETH President Prof. Joël Mesot, ETH Rector Prof. Günther Dissertori, Prof. Andreas Wenger (ETH Zurich / CSS), Prof. Elliott Ash (CLE), and Christoph Goessmann, the visit also involved further representatives from the ETH sections CLE, the CSS, ETH4D, the NADEL, the ETH AI Center, and the EcoVision Lab.
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| • | | The study Cable News and COVID-19 Vaccine by Matteo Pinna (CLE), Christoph Gössmann (CLE), and Léo Picard (University of Basel) was mentioned in the Washington Post: How Much of Right-Wing Opposition to Vaccination Was Fox News’s Fault? (October 10, 2022), as well as in the New York Times: We Should Try to Prevent Another (October 16, 2022).
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| • | | In Oct 2022, Prof. Alexander Stremitzer was invited to give the Keynote Lecture on the occasion of the 10 Year Anniversary of the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE) at the University of Bonn.
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| • | | CLE Ph.D. students Luca Baltensperger, Claudia Marangon, and Jakob Merane have been granted ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowships to attend visiting scholars programs at Columbia University (Luca Baltensperger) and Harvard University (both Claudia Marangon and Jakob Merane) during the spring semester 2023.
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| • | | Since October 2022 we have had the pleasure to work with the following academic guests at our Center: Dragos Gorduza (Ph.D. student at University of Oxford), Aniket Kesari (research fellow at NYU School of Law), Do Hyun Park (postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University), Karol Rutkowski (master student at Erasmus University Rotterdam), and Yuri Sugiyama (Ph.D. student at University of Tokyo).
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| • | | In June 2024, the Center for Law & Economics will co-organize a major conference bringing together researchers, policymakers, and policy experts to discuss how to map and govern the online world. Experts from law, economics, management, computer science and related fields will present and discuss empirical research on issues of privacy, consumer protection, antitrust, contracts, intellectual property and AI regulation. For more information, please check out the website of the Mapping and Governing the Online World Conference (MGOW 2024). This is a follow-up conference to a conference by Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU) and Stefan Bechtold (CLE), organized in November 2022.
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| Vlog & Podcast Series |
| We are excited to present the new episodes of our CLE Vlog & Podcast Series: |
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| Career Moves |
| We are proud to announce the career moves of the following team members: |
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| Aileen Nielsen |
| Aileen Nielsen will start a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2023. This is also when she is expected to complete her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich. Aileen has been a member of our Center since 2019. |
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| Fellows & Affiliates |
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Germain Gauthier
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| Germain Gauthier is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and a doctoral affiliate at the Institute for Public Policies (IPP). He is currently visiting our Center as a Research Affiliate. |
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Michael Kurschilgen
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| Michael Kurschilgen will become affiliated with the CLE as a Research Fellow. He has been an Assistant Professor at UniDistance Suisse since 2022, after holding positions at the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute in Bonn. |
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Daniela Sele
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| Daniela Sele, a former Ph.D. student at the CLE, will continue her collaboration with our Center as a Research Affiliate. She is Second Secretary to the Ambassador of Liechtenstein, responsible for justice and home affairs (Schengen/Dublin). |
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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 in Law & Economics
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Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop
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Munich Summer Institute 2023
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International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science
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Mapping and Governing the Online World Conference
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