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UBS Center Newsletter
Dear reader,
The first six months of this year were quite eventful
for the center. Allow us to share a summary of re-
cent highlights with you and give you a preview of
what we have in store for the rest of the year.
On the research side, we are pleased to announce
that Dina Pomeranz (Harvard Business School) will
join the Department of Economics of the University
of Zurich as a visiting professor in August 2016.
She will be affiliated with the UBS Center. Further-
more, we would like to congratulate the three grad-
uate students who were awarded with this year’s
UBS Center Scholarships.
On the event side, we look back at another success-
ful edition of our Podium. Experts from science,
business, and politics discussed the opportunities
and risks for the Swiss economy in light of an aging
society. Also, we had the honor to host an event
with Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller (Yale Universi-
ty) who talked about his latest book entitled
“Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipula-
tion and Deception.”
We are proud to be able to offer similar top events
in the second half of the year. Nobel Laureate Paul
Krugman (City University of New York) will visit
us on September 22 to give a public lecture entitled
“Can Europe Be Saved?” Furthermore, we will be
hosting the 2016 Forum for Economic Dialogue on
“The Rise of the Machines” on November 7, fea-
turing Jeremy Rifkin and Prof. David Autor (MIT)
as keynote speakers.
Finally, with the holidays just around the corner,
we wish you a nice summer with plenty of time to
recharge your batteries.
Ernst Fehr
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Director
Scientific Director
No. 7, June 2016
Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller at his lecture on “Phishing
for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception” at
the University of Zurich.
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