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UBS Center Newsletter
Dear reader,
We are excited to announce that Nir Jaimovich
(USC Marshall School of Business) is joining the
UBS Center as Affiliated Professor. Earlier this year,
we welcomed Ralph Ossa (University of Chicago)
and Florian Scheuer (Stanford University) to the
UBS Center. You will find out more about their re-
search fields and their motivation for coming to Zu-
rich on the following pages. Furthermore, we ex-
tend a warm welcome to Elias Papaioannou
(London Business School), who will join us as Visit-
ing Professor in the 2017/18 academic year.
Meanwhile, Fabrizio Zilibotti has accepted an offer
from Yale University and will be leaving both the
University of Zurich and the UBS Center this sum-
mer. We would like to warmly congratulate him on
this prestigious appointment and would like to
thank him for having played such an important role
in the successful build-up of the Center in his ca-
pacity as Scientific Director since 2012. His succes-
sor in the role of Scientific Director will be Joachim
Voth, another world-class researcher who has been
a member of the Center since 2014.
On the research side, this issue features David
Yanagizawa-Drott’s work on fake news and propa-
ganda, a current hot topic. He provides new in-
sights by examining government distortion and
news coverage biases in several research projects.
On the event side, we look back on another success-
ful edition of our podium, which helped to clear up
some of the many misconceptions surrounding the
highly charged topic of migration. Regarding up-
coming events, we look forward to the joint public
lecture by Esther Duflo (MIT) and Abhijit Banerjee
(MIT) on September 21. The 2017 Forum for Eco-
nomic Dialogue on “How to deal with the Global-
ization backlash?” will take place on November 13,
featuring Dani Rodrik (Harvard University) as key-
note speaker.
Ernst Fehr
Director
No. 9, June 2017
Migration expert Sir Paul Collier (Oxford University) at this
year’s Podium.
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