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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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| New Hires |
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Recently, the following researchers joined our Center:
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Luca Baltensperger
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| PhD student Luca Baltensperger holds a Master of Law from the University of Zurich and from Berkeley. Prior to joining ETH, he worked as a junior associate at a tier one law firm in Zurich - and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Luca is particularly interested in law & economics, constitutional law, digital privacy, data economy, and internet architecture. |
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Naman Goel
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| Postdoc Naman Goel joined the CLE after successfully completing his PhD at EPFL. His research evolves around building trustworthy AI. He applies concepts from game theory and blockchain to ensure that data collection mechanisms are fair and transparent. Naman is also very interested in ensuring fairness in algorithmic and machine aided human decision making. |
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Christophe Gösken
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| Christophe Gösken is a PhD candidate with a Master of Law from the University of Fribourg (Freiburg i.Üe). Previously, he worked in major corporate law firms in Switzerland and in London. His research focuses on the boundaries and on the improvement of IP, data protection and competition laws in the age of digitalisation. |
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German Gauthier
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| Germain Gauthier is a PhD student at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and a Doctoral Affiliate at the Institute for Public Policies (IPP). His research is a blend of applied econometrics and data science, studying topics related to political economy and crime. Germain is currently staying at the CLE as an academic guest. |
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| Research Highlights |
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Published in Journals
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| • | When Does Physician Use of AI Increase Liability? (Kevin Tobia, Aileen Nielsen & Alexander Stremitzer), The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol 62(1), 17-21 (2021) |
| • | Testing Ordinary Meaning (Kevin Tobia), Harvard Law Review, Vol 134(2), 726-806 (2020) |
| • | How to Better Communicate Exponential Growth of Infectious Diseases (Martin Schonger & Daniela Sele), PLOS ONE, Vol 15(12), e0242839 (2020) |
| • | Video Killed the Radio Star? Online Music Videos and Recorded Music Sales (Tobias Kretschmer & Christian Peukert), Information Systems Research, Vol 31(3), 776-800 (2020) |
| • | Home-Bias in Referee Decisions: Evidence from “Ghost Matches” during the Covid19-Pandemic (Marek Endrich & Tobias Gesche), Economics Letters, Vol 197, 109621 (2020) |
| • | Folk Teleology Drives Persistence Judgments (David Rose, Jonathan Schaffer & Kevin Tobia), Synthese, Vol 197, 5491-5509 (2020) |
| • | Direct Democracy, Partial Decentralization and Voter Information: Evidence from Swiss Municipalities (Sergio Galletta), International Tax and Public Finance, Vol 27(5), 1174-1197 (2020) |
| • | Promises, Reliance, and Psychological Lock-In (Rebecca Stone & Alexander Stremitzer), Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 49(1), 33-72 (2020) |
| • | Water is and is not H2O (Kevin Tobia, George E. Newman & Joshua Knobe), Mind and Language, Vol 35(2), 183-208 (2020) |
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Published in Conference Proceedings
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| • | Legal Language Modeling with Transformers (Lazar Peric, Stefan Mijic, Dominik Stammbach & Elliott Ash), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text held online in conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020), CEUR-WS, Vol 2764 (2020) |
| • | Entropy in Legal Language (Roland Friedrich, Mauro Luzzatto & Elliott Ash), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2020 co-located with the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD 2020), CEUR-WS, Vol 2645, 25-30 (2020) |
| • | e-FEVER: Explanations and Summaries for Automated Fact Checking (Dominik Stammbach & Elliott Ash), Proceedings of the 2020 Truth and Trust Online Conference (TTO 2020), 32-43 (2020) |
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New Working Papers
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| • | The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France (Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda & Malka Guillot), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 07/2020 |
| • | The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19 (Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, Dominik Hangartner, Yotam Margalit & Matteo Pinna), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 10/2020 |
| • | Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts (Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 11/2020 |
| • | We and It: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Experimental Evidence on Human-Machine Interaction (Marina Chugunova & Daniela Sele), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 12/2020 |
| • | Nudging Enforcers: How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions (Eugen Dimant & Tobias Gesche), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 13/2020 |
| • | Media Slant is Contagious (Philine Widmer, Sergio Galletta & Elliott Ash), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 14/2020 |
| • | More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States (Elliott Ash, Massimo Morelli & Matia Vannoni), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series 15/2020 |
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| CLE Tidbits |
| • | Professor Alexander Stremitzer was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association.
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| • | Professor Elliott Ash presented his work Ideas have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice at the NBER Political Economy Program Autumn Meeting.
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| • | Jointly with the University of Chicago Law School Coase-Sandor Institute and the Tsinghua University School of Law, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich has started to co-organize the yearly International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science. The Forum is an opportunity for rising young legal scholars, whose research uses social science methods to study legal issues, to present their work-in-progress and receive feedback from senior faculty of the three partners and other leading universities.
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| • | At the EALE (European Association of Law & Economics) Annual Conference 2020, CLE postdoc Nate Atkinson received the Göran Skogh Award for the best paper presented by a young scholar. His paper was entitled "Corporate Liability, Collateral Consequences, and Capital Structure".
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| • | PhD student Gabriel Gertsch received the best paper award for junior researchers at the ECPR General Conference 2020 for his paper “Judicial Independence and Consistency: Evidence from Switzerland”.
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| • | Malka Guillot, postdoc at the CLE, has won a Spark Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for her project “The Political Economy of Taxation: Complexity, Authority, Inequality”.
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| • | Nate Atkinson has also been awarded an ETH Career Seed Grant for a his project entitled “Do Individuals Seek Out or Avoid Opportunities to Altruistically Punish?”.
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| • | DeepJudge, an AI team composed of ETH Zurich doctoral candidates and advised by Professor Elliott Ash, has turned into a VC-funded startup, by winning a Venture Kick award.
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| • | Long-term CLE lecturer David Rosenthal received a Golden Owl, ETH Zurich's premier teaching award which is awarded by ETH Zurich's student association.
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| • | Professor Alexander Stremitzer was appointed J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a Visiting Professor and Senior Scholar in Residence at UCLA Law School.
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| Vlog & Podcast Series |
After a Corona-related break, we are happy that our CLE vlog and podcast series continues: |
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| Career Moves |
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We proudly announce the following career moves of CLE team members:
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Philipp Nikolaus
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| Philipp worked as a scientific assistant with Prof. Elliott Ash and his research team. Recently, he moved on to MSCI to start his new position as an ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) Research Data Scientist. |
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Tobias Gesche
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| After having been a postdoc since 2018, Tobias will join Google in Zurich. As a data analyst and strategist, he will work on behavioral and data-driven approaches to protect users from abuse. Tobias will remain connected to the CLE as a research affiliate. |
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Jonas Wüthrich
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| Jonas was a long-term scientific collaborator at the CLE. Now, he works as a law clerk in division II (economic affairs, competition and education) at the Federal Administrative Court in St. Gallen, mainly in the area of antitrust law. |
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Teresa Sala Climent
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| After her year as a visiting doctoral student at the CLE, Teresa is now employed as a Digital Contracts Tool Expert at Swiss Re in Zurich. She works on a project aimed at setting up a data mining tool for (re)insurance contracts. |
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| Outlook: Conferences & Workshops |
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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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Text-as-Data Workshop, joint with SoDa Labs at Monash University Melbourne
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Workshop & Lecture Series in Law & Economics
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Munich Summer Institute 2021
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Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
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International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science
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