Archive Economics and Informatics 2023

Article list Economics and Informatics

• 21.12.2023 Innovative Teaching – Part 1: Individualized Teaching

  Ready for E-Learning

  In digital self-study areas, students can learn at their own pace, taking into account what they already know. An online training course developed at UZH supports teaching staff in setting up their own e-learning hubs.

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• 30.11.2023 UZH Postdoc Team Award

  A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid

  A treatment for people suffering from Long Covid is yet to materialize. The only approach that has proven to be effective is for patients to manage their symptoms. Researchers at UZH have developed an innovative smartwatch application and app that help patients do this. The researchers have now been awarded this year’s UZH Postdoc Team Award.

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• 01.11.2023 Globalization

  "We have a lot to lose"

  The Corona pandemic and the Ukraine war are the two most recent events that put globalization to the test. In this interview, political scientist Stefanie Walter and economist David Dorn discuss the challenges for global cooperation and its future.

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• 13.07.2023 Sports

  Women’s Soccer Rated as Highly as Men’s

  The quality of women’s vs. men’s soccer has been the subject of heated debates. Research conducted at UZH has now settled the score – with some interesting findings.

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• 10.07.2023 Behaviour

  Criticism with care is more persuasive

  When unethical behavior is criticized, demands are often met with defensiveness and denial. New research shows that concern for their welfare makes people more open to criticism.

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• 20.06.2023 Teamwork

  Feeling Good at Work

  Positive emotions are the cornerstone of successful and productive work. Economist Jochen Menges is exploring how the emotions of teams and therefore their performance can be influenced. His research shows that not everyone wants the same things.

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• 14.06.2023 Future of Work

  Mobile Working – A Balancing Act

  UZH recently concluded a pilot study to find out how the modern world of work can best satisfy the needs of employers and employees. Managing potentially contradictory wishes is key to success, found the study.

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• 10.05.2023 Applied Statistics

  Disk or Globe?

  Why is the Earth not flat, but spherical? Scientists at the University of Zurich have developed a new, easy-to-understand statistical method to determine the curvature of the Earth.

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• 06.04.2023 FAN Awards

  Heart Attacks, Science Fiction and Lessons from Organic Agriculture

  Three UZH junior researchers are honored with a FAN Award for their original work: Florian Wenzl for his research on personalized heart attack treatment, Jessica Imbach for her study of Chinese science fiction and Emilio Dal Re for revealing the unintended consequences of organic agriculture.

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• 29.03.2023 Sustainable Digitalization

  “We’re not at the mercy of the future”

  Digital technologies make many systems and processes more efficient. Lorenz Hilty, professor of informatics, is researching how the digital transformation can also be harnessed for sustainable development.

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• 09.03.2023 LINA testing facility

  Flying Toward the Future

  A new testing facility at Dübendorf Airport enables researchers to develop autonomous systems such as drones from idea to marketable product. The facility was conceived thanks to the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions.

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• 01.03.2023 Equality of Opportunity

  Preventing Social Decline

  Income inequality is increasing. According to economist David Dorn, this is causing wider demographic groups to turn their back on the established system – most notably in the US, but also elsewhere. We talk to Dorn about redistribution of salaries, temporary protective tariffs and the future of work.

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• 22.02.2023 Big Data

  Fighting back

  Google and Facebook sell our personal data and earn billions worth of profits by doing that. Economist Gregory Crawford and philosopher Francis Cheneval think that they ought to share the money with us and that we should have ownership rights over our personal data.

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• 08.02.2023 Self-Regulation Training

  Hurdy shows the way

  Today, economics is a universal behavioral science, says Ernst Fehr. In an experiment at schools, the economist showed that young students who can regulate themselves well learn better. This ability can be trained.

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• 07.02.2023 Economics

  Out of the Cocoa Fields

  In Côte d’Ivoire and Malawi, many children don’t attend school because they have to work on cocoa plantations or are married off at an early age. UZH economist Guilherme Lichand is using innovative experiments to explore solutions to this problem.

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• 01.02.2023 Sustainable assets

  Green Investing

  Investors can contribute to the sustainable development of the economy, says economist Falko Paetzold. Supporting innovative start-ups is the most high-impact way of doing so.

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• 16.01.2023 UZH Postdoc Team Award

  Checking the Pulse of Society

  The newly established Postdoc Team Award allows UZH to recognize outstanding interdisciplinary research. The inaugural award has gone to two teams, both of which are developing innovative approaches in healthcare research, such as linking pupil size to stress resilience or exploring what tweets can reveal about our mental health.

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