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New UBS Scholarship Holders 2017
We are happy to announce that the 2017 UBS Cen-
ter Scholarships were awarded to four outstanding
young talents.
The scholarship recipients were selected from sev-
eral hundred applicants to the Zurich Graduate
School of Economics (ZurichGSE). Two of our new
doctoral students obtained their Master’s degree in
Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy:
Chiara Aina
from Italy and
Christian Decker
from
Germany.
Ante Malencia
from Croatia holds a
Master’s degree in mathematics from the University
of Zagreb and is currently completing a Master’s
degree in Economics at the University of Zurich.
Last but not least, we welcome
Julian Teichgräber
from Germany to the Center. He holds a Master’s
degree from the London School of Economics.
The four of them will join the Zurich Graduate
School of Economics at the University of Zurich in
September 2017. We wish them great success with
their studies and look forward to welcoming them
to Zurich.
New Affiliated Professor
Nir Jaimovich is a macroeconomist who specializes
in studying business cycles and the dynamics of the
labor market. He will join the Department of Eco-
nomics’ faculty at Zurich in September 2017. He
will be affiliated with the UBS Center.
Professor Jaimovich is an as-
sociate editor of the
Journal
of Monetary Economics
and
the
Journal of Economic The-
ory
, and a Research Associ-
ate in the National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER)
Economic Fluctuations and
Growth program.
Before joining the University of Zurich, Nir Jai-
movich was Professor at USC Marshall School of
Business, Duke University, Stanford University,
and University of California, San Diego. He has
published in the
American Economic Review,
the
Journal of Political Economy,
and the
Internation-
al Economic Review,
among other journals.
Visiting Professor 2017/2018
Elias Papaioannou will join the Department of
Economics at the University of Zurich in September
2017 for a visiting professorship. During his stay, he
will be affiliated with the UBS Center.
Elias Papaioannou is Professor
of Economics at the London
Business School. He is also a
research affiliate of the CEPR
(Centre for Economic Policy
Research) and the NBER (Na-
tional Bureau of Economic
Research).
His research interests
cover the areas of international finance, political
economy, applied econometrics, macro aspects of
regulation, law and finance, and growth and devel-
opment. He has published in many leading peer-
refereed journals, such as
Econometrica,
the
Quar-
terly Journal of Economics,
the
Journal of Political
Economy,
the
American Economic Review,
and
more.
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