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UBS Center Newsletter
Dear reader,
With the holidays just around the corner, we would
like to share recent and upcoming highlights of the
UBS Center with you.
The UBS Center is pleased to announce that Nir
Jaimovich, formerly of University of Southern Cali-
fornia, joined the Department of Economics at the
University of Zurich in July 2017. He is affiliated
with the UBS Center. You can find out more about
his work on the next page.
A special welcome goes to four promising UBS Cen-
ter Scholarship holders who joined the Zurich
Graduate School of Economics this September. For
this issue, we sat down with the freshman doctoral
students to talk about their reasons for coming to
Zurich. Read more on page three.
Furthermore, we are proud to launch the sixth UBS
Center Public Paper, which focuses on the distribu-
tion of income and wealth in Switzerland. The au-
thors, Reto Föllmi and Isabel Martínez, show that
Switzerland is a center of stability – in a good as
well as in a less good sense.
On the event side, we look back at a very successful
Forum for Economic Dialogue. “How to Deal with
the Globalization Backlash?” was the question for
leading thinkers and academics who joined us for
this thought-provoking event at the Kaufleuten Zu-
rich in November. Earlier, in September, we had the
pleasure to host a public event along with the De-
partment of Economics and the Swiss Re Founda-
tion featuring Esther Duflo (MIT) and Abhijit V.
Banerjee (MIT), who shared the lessons they
learned after publishing
Poor Economics
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We wish you an interesting read and hope to wel-
come you at one of our future events. Season’s
Greetings to all of you.
Ernst Fehr
Joachim Voth
Director
Scientific Director
No. 10, December 2017
More than 400 people listened to and interacted with experts
from all fields at our Forum on the globalization backlash.
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