UBS Center Newsletter June 2016

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Prof. Paul Krugman “Can Europe Be Saved?”
on September 22, 2016
It is an honor for the center to host a public lecture
by Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman at the University
of Zurich. Please join us to hear his assessment on
the European economic situation.
Nobel Laureate Paul Krug-
man is known for his work
on international economics,
liquidity traps, and currency
crisis. He has written over
20 books and has published
over 200 scholarly articles.
He has also contributed
more than 750 columns
on economic and political
issues to The New York
Times, Fortune, and Slate.
As a commentator, Krugman has written on a wide
range of economic issues including income distribu-
tion, taxation, and international economics.
Prof. David Hémous “Innovation and Climate
Change Policies” on December 12, 2016
David Hémous was appointed to the Assistant
Professorship of Economics of Innovation and En-
trepreneurship, endowed by the UBS International
Center of Economics in Society.
David Hémous joined the
Department of Economics
at the University of Zurich
in 2015. His work centers
on Economic Growth, In-
ternational Trade, and En-
vironmental Economics. In
particular, he has worked
on the role of innovation in
climate change policies, the
long-term growth impact of
countercyclical fiscal policy, the labor adjustments
to international trade, and the impact of relational
contracts on innovation. We would like to invite
you to his inaugural lecture.
Forum for Economic Dialogue “The Rise of the
Machines” on November 7, 2016
We are delighted to invite you to the 2016 Forum
for Economic Dialogue at the Kaufleuten in Zurich.
Please join us and hear leading international figures
from science, business, and politics assess potential
options, share their recommendations, and enter
into open discussions with the audience.
The program consists of three main sessions
• Morning Panel Session: The Rise of the Machines
– Revolution or Evolution?
• Afternoon Panel Session: Policies for the
Machine Age
• Disputation: The End of Work?
The event will start with a keynote lecture by Jeremy
Rifkin and will conclude with the Zurich Lecture of
Economics in Society delivered by Prof. David Autor
(MIT).
Further speakers include Nick Bostrom (Oxford
University), Alessandro Curioni (IBM), John Martin
(OECD), Joel Mokyr (Northwestern), and Roland
Siegwart (Professor of Robotics, ETH).
The detailed program together with further infor-
mation on the speakers and how to register will be
available in due course on
Outlook
Jeremy Rifkin
Photo by Stephan Röhl,
© Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Prof. David Autor
Photo by Niccolò Caranti
Photo: © The Left Call