Archive Economics and Informatics 2022

Article list Economics and Informatics

• 21.12.2022 New UZH Magazin

  Climate Change, Wars and Insatiable Data Dredgers

  The challenges facing the global community today are complex and manifold: climate crisis, war, poverty, inequality, digitalization, a new political world order. The new issue of the UZH Magazin analyzes some of the problems and points to possible solutions.

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• 21.12.2022 Behavioral Economics

  The Costs of Rationality

  Paul Glimcher, co-founder of the field of neuroeconomics and professor at New York University, recently held a keynote speech at UZH. In his lecture titled "Efficiently Irrational", he showed why seemingly irrational decisions are economical and how too much choice leads to worse decisions.

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• 05.12.2022 Neuroeconomics

  Conflicting Motives Govern Sense of Fairness

  Researchers at UZH have investigated the motives influencing our perception of justice in resource distribution. They found that although people feel an aversion to inequality, they are also reluctant to harm others and to upend existing social hierarchies.

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• 24.11.2022 UZH Center for Crisis Competence

  Crisis Mode

  The new UZH Center for Crisis Competence (CCC) opened its doors this week with a public launch event. Alexander Wagner, professor of finance and co-head of the CCC, tells us about the center’s purpose and how it will contribute to improved crisis competence.

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• 09.11.2022 Economics

  Diversifizieren statt abschotten

  Global trade policy has become more unpredictable, says the recently appointed Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization (WTO), UZH’s Ralph Ossa. We interviewed him to find out more.

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• 14.09.2022 New UZH Magazin

  The Art of Learning

  Learning is itself a skill that must be learned. The best ways to do this and the requirements for success are current topics of research at UZH. The new UZH Magazin examines how our ability to learn changes over the course of our lives, how good teaching works, and what goes on in our brains when we learn. The current issue is published jointly by the University of Zurich and UZH Alumni.

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• 29.06.2022 World Biodiversity Forum

  Reversing the Trend

  At the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos this week, the focus is on how to slow down species loss and protect ecosystems. The UZH-organized conference aims to inspire action by bringing together researchers and practitioners.

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• 15.06.2022 Finance

  Sustainable Investments by Private Banks Are Becoming Almost Standard Practice

  Private banks across Europe are meeting more client demands, new regulations and pressure from stakeholders with better qualified advisors. A new study carried out at the University of Zurich shows that banks are rising to the challenge of investing sustainably with varying degrees of success.

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• 11.04.2022 Blockchain

  Distributed Trust

  Buying a car? Blockchain promises greater transparency and a revolution in business models. All you need is faith in the technology. Liudmila Zavolokina studies how users trust – or mistrust – these new applications.

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• 31.01.2022 Delinquency

  Understanding Who Commits Which Crimes

  Why do some young men turn to crime, while others don’t? An international study shows that preferences such as risk tolerance, impatience and altruism as well as self-control can predict who will commit crime. Risk-tolerant, impatient young men are more likely to commit property crime, while people with low self-control tend to commit violent, drug and sexual offenses.

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