Archive Economics and Informatics 2018

Article list Economics and Informatics

• 14.11.2018 Social and Cultural Anthropology

  Inventing the Future

  Financial analysts' expertise and predictions are imaginary constructs, says Stefan Leins. The social anthropologist researched their daily routines and their work.

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• 22.10.2018 Digital Day

  How Digitalization Changes Medicine

  Apps to help us lead healthier lives, artificial intelligence to enhance monitoring of intensive care patients, and electronic diaries to improve the lives of multiple sclerosis sufferers: On Digital Day, UZH presents ways in which digital technology can change and advance medicine.

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• 18.10.2018 OECD

  Human Rights for the Global Economy

  Creating good living conditions for all – that is law professor Christine Kaufmann’s goal as new chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, as she explains in this interview.

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• 05.10.2018 50 Years of Banking and Finance

  Artificial intelligence and Cryptobanks

  UZH’s Department of Banking and Finance was founded as the “Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen” in the winter semester of 1968/69. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary celebrations, we look back on half a century’s worth of successful research and teaching.

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• 19.09.2018 UZH Digital Forum

  The Future of Work

  Are digitalization and automation making jobs disappear? Not according to American organizational theorist Thomas Malone, who gave a guest lecture at the UZH Digital Forum last week.

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• 04.07.2018 Economics

  In the Engine Room of the World

  Can poverty be tackled by systematically influencing the behavior of those affected? Or does that just perpetuate it? Christian Berndt and Guilherme Lichand discuss the effects of social intervention.

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• 28.06.2018 Honor

  Researcher with Multiple Talents

  UZH doctoral candidate José Parra Moyano has been bestowed with a very special honor: The 27-year-old Spaniard was included on Forbes magazine’s prestigious 30 under 30 list. Parra Moyano researches blockchain technology at UZH.

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• 26.06.2018 Robotics

  Learning by Flying

  Will our cities soon be full of whirring aerial devices? Robotics expert Davide Scaramuzza is working on making drones so smart that they can navigate fully autonomously.

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• 18.04.2018 Talk im Turm

  Discussing Educational Opportunities and Fair Taxation

  At the latest Talk im Turm event, educational scientist Katharina Maag Merki and economist Florian Scheuer discussed equal opportunities in education and a tax system that provides performance incentives rather than merely redistributing wealth.

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• 07.04.2018 Economy

  Rip-Off Merchants, Profiteers, and Superstars

  High incomes are not always unfair, and too-high taxes can be bad for the economy, shows economist Florian Scheuer’s research into taxation of the super-rich.

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• 07.03.2018 Economy

  Out of the Poverty Trap by Text Message

  Poverty reduces people’s ability to think and take action. Poor people often make the wrong decisions, which means they stay poor. Brazilian economist Guilherme Lichand wants to change this – by text message.

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• 01.03.2018 Education

  The Swiss education system is full of hurdles. For children from less privileged families, navigating the route to university is tough. Reforming the system could change that

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• 23.02.2018 Endowed Professorship

  Breastfeeding Research

  With the help of a 10 million franc donation, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics of the University of Zurich is to establish a center to research the long-term effects of breastfeeding. The professorship and associated research fund is financed by the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation.

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