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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.
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Center for Law & Economics (CLE) |
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Eunjung Cho
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| Eunjung Cho has joined the CLE this semester to pursue her Ph.D. studies at ETH Zurich. She holds an M.Sc. in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Eunjung's research focuses on natural language processing, AI safety, and political economy. |
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Raquel De Haro
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| Raquel De Haro is a Ph.D. student with an MLaw from the International University of La Rioja, and a Master in IP and New Technologies from the International University of Valencia. Raquel’s research revolves around the critical examination of the digital landscape regulation, particularly at the EU level. |
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Yabra Muvdi
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| Yabra Muvdi has recently started his Ph.D. at the CLE, after obtaining an M.Sc. in Data Science from the Barcelona School of Economics. He is particularly interested in studying how algorithmic decision-making systems maintain existing inequalities and in exploring how this can be prevented. |
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Jingwei Ni
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| Jingwei Ni joined our Center as a Ph.D. student in spring. He holds an M.Sc. in Data Science and Machine Learning from the University College London. His research interests lie in the field of AI applications, including fact-checking, scientific communication, and AI for social good. |
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Karol Rutkowski
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| Ph.D. student Karol Rutkowski has an LL.M. in Law & Economics (Erasmus University, Ghent University & University of Vienna), as well as an M.A. in Law and an M.Sc. in Mathematics (both Jagiellonian University). He is interested in contract theory, experimental & behavioral economics, and game theory. |
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Isabelle Siegrist
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| Isabelle Siegrist is a Ph.D. student with an M.A. in Business Innovation from the University of St. Gallen. With her own company Sandborn she has been helping to build up and invest in startups. In her research, she focuses on questions around investment decision-making and fairness in artificial intelligence. |
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| Mahdi Khesali (Bonn & Hamburg) |
| Mahdi Khesali will spend the fall semester 2023 at the CLE as a visiting doctoral student. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Law at the Max Plank Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Hamburg. Mahdi's research interests fall within the fields of empirical legal studies and computational social science. He uses experimental and observational data to study human behaviour, influenced by social and legal norms. |
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| Research Highlights |
| Publications in Journals |
| • | | RELATIO: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives (Elliott Ash, Germain Gauthier & Phline Widmer), Political Analysis, 2023 |
| • | | Detecting the Influence of Chinese Guiding Cases: A Text Reuse Approach (Benjamin Minhao Chen, Zhiyu Li, David Cai & Elliott Ash), Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023 |
| • | | If We Build It, Will They Legislate? Empirically Testing the Potential of the Nondelegation Doctrine to Curb Congressional “Abdication” (Daniel E. Walters & Elliott Ash), Cornell Law Review, 2023 |
| • | | Competition Policy and the Labour Share (Amit Zac, Carola Casti, Chris Decker & Ariel Ezrachi), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (JLEO), 2023 |
| • | | The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19 (Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, Dominik Hangartner, Yotam Margalit & Matteo Pinna), Political Analysis, 2023 |
| • | | Human-Guided Fair Classification for Natural Language Processing (Florian E.Dorner, Momchil Peychev, Nikola Konstantinov, Naman Goel, Elliott Ash & Martin Vechev), The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023 |
| • | | Uncovering and Categorizing Social Biases in Text-to-SQL (Yan Liu, Yan Gao, Zhe Su, Xiaokang Chen, Elliott Ash & Jian-Guang Lou), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023 |
| • | | When Does Aggregating Multiple Skills with Multi-Task Learning Work? A Case Study in Financial NLP (Jingwei Ni, Zhijing Jin, Qian Wang, Mrinmaya Sachan & Markus Leippold), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023 |
| • | | Environmental Claim Detection (Dominik Stammbach, Nicolas Webersinke, Julia Anna Bingler, Mathias Kraus & Markus Leippold), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023 |
| • | | SUSTAINABLESIGNALS: An AI Approach for Inferring Consumer Product Sustainability (Tong Lin, Tianliang Xu, Amit Zac & Sabina Tomkin), Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23), 2023 |
| • | | Fighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation (Alena Bochenkova, Paolo Buonanno & Sergio Galletta), Journal of Development Economics, 2023 |
| • | | Intellectual Property and the Manufacture of Aura (Stefan Bechtold & Chris Sprigman), Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, 2023 |
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| Other Publications |
| • | | Would Humans Trust an A.I. Judge? More Easily Than You Think. (Alexander Stremitzer, Benjamin Minhao Chen & Kevin Tobia), Slate Magazine, 2023 |
| • | | Im Kopf des Kriminellen (Elliott Ash), Die Volkswirtschaft, 2023 |
| • | | Access to Data and Algorithms: For an Effective DMA and DSA Implementation (Laura Edelson, Inge Graef & Filippo Lancieri), CERRE Report, 2023 |
| • | | Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD) (Floring Geering & Jakob Merane), Zenodo, 2023 |
| • | | Large Language Models for Economic Research: Four Key Questions (Elliott Ash & Stephen Hansen), VoxEU – CEPR, 2023 (online) |
| • | | Pulse of Progress: The State of Global SDG Data in 2023 (Christoph Gössmann, Priscilla Idele, Kersten Jauer, Martin Loinig, Claire Melamed & Tomas Zak), United Nations, 2023
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| • | | Bundesgerichtsurteile nutzen: Das Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD) (Jakob Merane & Florian Geering), Jusletter, 2023 |
| • | | Durch eine Marktzulassungsanmeldung bei der Europäischen Arzneimittel-Agentur (EMA) droht nicht zwingend ein Verletzungs-Risiko von Rechten des geistigen Eigentums, das die Anordnung einer vorsorglichen Massnahme möglich macht (Christophe Gösken), iusNet Intellectual Property, 2023
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| Working Papers |
| • | | Media Slant is Contagious (Philine Widmer, Sergio Galletta & Elliott Ash), Center for Law & Economics Working Papers Series, 10/2020, updated in April 2023
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| • | | Better to be Jeered than Ignored? Gender and Reactions during Parliamentary Debates (Elliott Ash, Johann Krümmel & Jonathan B. Slapin), Center for Law & Economics Working Papers Series, 02/2023, May 2023 |
| • | | Ideas Have Consequences (Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen & Suresh Naidu), Center for Law & Economics Working Papers Series, 04/2019, updated in June 2023 |
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| CLE Tidbits |
| • | | On September 18, CLE postdoc Benjamin Arold won the "Fürther Ludwig Erhard Prize 2023", endowed with 5'000 EUR. Since 2003, this prize has been awarded by the Ludwig Erhard Foundation to recently graduated scientists, whose dissertations are innovative and relevant for the economy, society, and the environment. In his dissertation School Curricula, Educational Trajectories, and Labor Market Outcomes, Benjamin Arold provides empirical evidence that school curricula have a considerable influence on crucial choices of students in their adulthood. He won the award because of the important insights his thesis provides to the parties in charge of the education system, as well as to society as a whole. Already at the beginning of the year, his dissertation had been chosen as the "Best Dissertation in Economics of Education 2021/2022" by the Economics of Education Committee of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (German Economic Association).
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| • | | Prof. Stefan Bechtold has recently been named Associate Vice President IP Policy at ETH Zurich. This appointment is part of the plan of the Executive Board of ETH Zurich to dedicate more resources to the strategic development of intellectual property issues at ETH Zurich. In his new role, Stefan Bechtold will tackle topics such as guidelines for open source software at ETH, training and awareness-raising measures for researchers regarding IP issues, and strategic matters in the Office of Corporate Relations and Knowledge Transfer. For more information, please read here.
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| • | | On November 3 & 4, 2023, the 4th AI Policy Summit will take place at ETH Zurich. Organized by RegHorizon and the CLE, the AI Policy Summit is a unique opportunity for policymakers, business leaders, civil society, and academia to exchange ideas and co-create the future of AI policies. The organizers are particularly delighted about the new strategic partnerships with UNESCO and University of Zurich's Digital Society Initiative (DSI). The AI Policy Summit 2023 will be held in a hybrid format on ETH Zurich's main campus and via online broadcasts. The registration for the summit is still open.
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| • | | At the beginning of September, the LATSIS Symposium 2023 and the Zurich IP Retreat 2023 took place in Zurich. Co-organized by Elliott Ash and his team, the Latsis Symposium aimed at connecting civil society actors, online news platforms, policymakers, and scientists to evaluate novel pathways for tackling harmful online speech and strengthening public discourse. During the Zurich IP Retreat 2023, co-organized by Stefan Bechtold, judges, academics, and attorneys discussed a central topic of IP law: "The Measure of All Things".
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| • | | Together with Laura Edelson (New York University) and Inge Graef (Tilburg University), postdoc Filippo Lancieri from the CLE launched the CERRE Report Access to Data and Algorithms: For an Effective DMA and DSA Implementation in April. The report takes stock of the 54 algorithmic transparency and data sharing obligations that are present in the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), adopted by EU policy makers in 2022. The report further identifies what principles should guide the balancing of potential conflicts between data access and privacy, IP rights, and rule of law.
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| Vlogs & Podcasts |
| We are excited to present the new episodes of our CLE Vlog & Podcast Series: |
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| Vlog with Jonathan Mayer (Princeton) on Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Online Disinformation |
| Disinformation is proliferating on the internet, and platforms are responding by attaching warnings to content. There is little evidence, however, that these warnings help users identify or avoid disinformation. In this episode, Prof. Jonathan Mayer (Princeton) discusses the study Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Online Disinformation with Amit Zac (ETH Zurich). |
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| Adriana Robertson (Chicago) on Noisy Factors in Law |
| For years, academic experts have championed the widespread adoption of the “Fama-French” factors in legal settings.Yet these data are beset by widespread retroactive changes which can materially affect a broad range of estimates. In this vlog episode, Prof. Adriana Robertson (University of Chicago) and Alessandro Tacconelli (CLE) talk about the study "Noisy Factors in Law". |
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| Common Law vs. Civil Law – Holger Spamann (Harvard) |
| For a long time, scholars have been classifying most legal systems around the world as falling within one of two inherently different categories: common or civil law systems. In this episode of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. Holger Spamann (Harvard) examines the myths and the reality of common and civil law with Alessandro Tacconelli (ETH Zurich). |
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| Career Moves |
| We are proud to announce the career moves of the following team members: |
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Germain Gauthier
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| After finishing his Ph.D. in Economics at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), CLE research affiliate Germain Gauthier is now an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan. |
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| Swagatam Sinha |
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| This fall, Swagatam Sinha will start a position as a postdoc at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He had obtained his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich last year, followed by a position as an economist at Keystone Strategy in New York. |
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| Peiyao Sun |
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| For the past year, Peiyao Sun worked at the CLE as an scientific assistant. This fall, she will start a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance, a joint program offered by Pompeu Fabra University and the Barcelona School of Economics. |
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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 | September 19 – December 13, 2023
More information
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| Mapping and Governing the Online World Conference (MGOW) | June 16 – 21, 2024
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