Economics and Informatics
Behavioral economics, trade or digitalization: Researchers at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics investigate new scientific theories and methods in economics, business administration, banking and finance, and in informatics.
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Your Best Friend’s Personality Can Shape Your Own
Students become more conscientious, open, and competitive when they spend time with friends who also exhibit these traits, according to the first
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More Sustainability, Less Moral Preaching
If Switzerland and the EU want to become carbon-neutral by 2050, they need to overcome ideological rifts in business, politics and society.
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“Europeans must have confidence in the future”
To be able to play up its economic strengths against China and the US, Europe should aim to eliminate barriers in its internal market and not try to
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New Spin-Offs with Innovative Technology
Detecting prostate cancer at an early stage, keeping transplantation organs viable for longer, or a lab that fits on a chip: these six spin-offs from
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Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology
A new UZH study shows for the first time that higher minimum wages for low-skill jobs drive firms to develop automation technologies. Rising wages
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“Whoever controls Artificial General Intelligence, controls the world”
Artificial intelligence has been reshaping nearly every sector of the economy. In a lecture at UZH, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu emphasized the need
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More Maize for Farmers in Africa
As part of their Master’s project, three informatics students developed a software solution that could help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to reduce
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University of Zurich
Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
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