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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.
Kind regards,
Center for Law & Economics |
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| Academic Guests |
| In the spring and summer 2022, we will have the following academic guests: |
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Sarath Sanga (Northwestern)
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| We currently have the pleasure to host Professor Sarath Sanga, Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Associate Professor in the Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management. He is an interdisciplinary scholar using empirical and machine learning methods to study legal institutions. His principal areas of research are corporate law and contract theory. |
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John Donohue (Stanford)
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| In April, we have the honor of welcoming Professor John J. Donohue III as our guest, the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Prof. Donohue is an economist as well as a lawyer and is well-known for using empirical analysis to determine the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas, including civil rights and antidiscrimination law, employment discrimination and criminal justice. |
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Henry Smith (Harvard)
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| In June, we look forward to welcoming Professor Henry E. Smith at the CLE, the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prof. Smith has written primarily on the law and economics of property and intellectual property, with a focus on how property-related institutions lower information costs and constrain strategic behavior. He teaches in the areas of property, intellectual property, natural resources, remedies, and law & economics. In 2014, the American Law Institute named him Reporter for a Forth Restatement of Property. |
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Nick Short (Harvard)
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| We are happy to announce that Nick Short will visit our Center as a Summer Fellow. He is a PhD Candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. His research focuses on the law, politics, and policy of the American knowledge economy and the ways in which the American knowledge economy produces economic, geographic, and political inequality. Nick will stay with us in the summer. |
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| Research Highlights |
| Published in Journals |
| • | | Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts (Moritz Osnabrügge, Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli), Political Analysis, October 2021 |
| • | | Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams, (Jérôme Hergueux, Emeric Henry, Yochai Benkler & Yann Algan), Organization Science, 29 October 2021 |
| • | | De-Biasing Strategic Communication (Tobias Gesche), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 130, 452-464 (2021) |
| • | | Honesty in the Digital Age (Alain Cohn, Tobias Gesche & Michel André Maréchal), Management Science, Vol 68(2), 809-826 |
| • | | Designing Remedies for Digital Markets: The Interplay Between Antitrust and Regulation (Filippo Lancieri & Caio Mario S. Pereria Neto), Journal of Competition Law & Economics, nhab022, November 2021 |
| • | | Emotion and Reason in Political Language (Gloria Gennaro & Elliott Ash), The Economic Journal, ueab104, 30 December 2021 |
| • | | Leveraging the Honor Code: Public Goods Contributions under Oath (Jérôme Hergueux, Nicolas Jacquemet, Stéphane Luchini & Jason F. Shogren), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 81, 591-616 (2022) |
| • | | Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income (Amit Zac), ProMarket Online, 8 February 2022 |
| • | | Narrowing Data Protection’s Enforcement Gap (Filippo Lancieri), Maine Law Review, Vol 74(1) (2022) |
| • | | Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World (Filippo Lancieri & Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto), ProMarket Online, 8 March 2022 |
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| Published in Conference Proceedings |
| • | | Do I Trust this Stranger? Generalized Trust and the Governance of Online Communities (Jérôme Hergueux, Yann Algan, Yochai Benkler & Mayo Fuster-Morell), WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, 539-543 (2021) |
| • | | Evidence Selection as a Token-Level Prediction Task (Dominik Stammbach), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), 14-20 (2021) |
| • | | Machine Extraction of Tax Laws from Legislative Texts (Elliott Ash, Malka Guillot & Luyang Han), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 (EMLNP/NLLP 2021), 76-85 (2021) |
| • | | Checking Websites’ GDPR Consent Compliance for Marketing Emails, (Karel Kubíček, Jakob Merane, Carlos Cotrini, Alexander Stremitzer, Stefan Bechtold & David Basin), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Vol 2, 282-303 (2022) |
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| New Working Papers |
| • | | Dimensions of Mind in Semantic Space (Elliott Ash, Dominik Stammbach & Kevin Tobia), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/14 |
| • | | Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media (Elliott Ash, Ruben Durante, Maria Grebenshchikova & Carlo Schwarz), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/15 |
| • | | Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics (Elliott Ash, Sharun W. Mukand, Dani Rodrik), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/16 |
| • | | The Choice of Knowledge Base in Automated Claim Checking (Dominik Stammbach, Boya Zhang & Elliott Ash), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/17 |
| • | | The Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the United States (Filippo Lancieri, Eric A. Posner & Luigi Zingales), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2022/01 |
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| CLE Tidbits |
| • | | In October 2021, Elliott Ash was appointed as an Associate Editor of The Economic Journal, published by the Royal Economic Society.
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| • | | In December 2021, we had the honor of welcoming Professor Tom Ginsburg and a group of his students from the University of Chicago at ETH. Tom presented his new book on Democracies and International Law.
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| • | | Congratulations to Elliott Ash for winning an ERC Starting Grant with his project on “Tools from AI for Law and Social Science”. ERC Research Grants are among the most prestigious awards in Europe.
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| • | | From January to June 2022, Stefan Bechtold will spend a sabbatical as a Global Professor of Law at New York University.
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| • | | In February 2022, Jacek Lewkowicz spent a research visit at the CLE. Jacek is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at University of Warsaw and Senior Economist at Central Bank of Poland. His research is focused on applied institutional economics and data-intensive methods in law and economics, including the use of machine learning and text mining. |
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| Vlog & Podcast Series |
| We are excited to present the latest videos of our CLE Vlog & Podcast Series: |
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| Career Moves |
| We proudly announce the following career moves of CLE team members: |
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| Chiara Focacci |
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| Chiara Focacci, a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam and former visiting PhD student at the CLE, has become a research affiliate at our Center. |
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| Sergio Galletta |
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| We are delighted to have Sergio Galletta back in our office in Zurich. He spent the past two years at the University of Bergamo and has returned to the CLE as a postdoctoral researcher. |
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| Naman Goel |
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| In spring 2022, Naman Goel will move to the University of Oxford to join its Department of Computer Science as a postdoctoral research fellow on ethical web & data architectures. Congratulations to Naman on the new position! |
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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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Munich Summer Institute
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International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science
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