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Old-age retirement benefits are a major concern among the Swiss population but estimating one’s revenue after retirement is challenging due to the Swiss social system’s complexity. In Switzerland, as with many other countries, the risk of poverty for retiree people is high, especially for women who often work part-time. The research presented in this paper proposes a methodology to...

Medo, Matus; Mariani, Manuel; Lü, Linyuan (2021). The fragility of opinion formation in a complex world. Communications Physics, 4:75.

Financial markets reacted with a vengeance to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that while the spread of the pandemic is statistically significant in explaining changes to bond spreads, it has little additional explanatory power over variables that capture financial stress. Financial markets reacted as in any international financial crisis by penalizing emerging economies exposing...

There is an emerging consensus that inequality is adversely related to growth. However, the empirical literature on the links between inequality and growth does not align with this simple narrative, especially because the channels through which inequality may affect growth remain poorly understood.

Cao, Xia; Li, Chuanyun (2020). Evolutionary game simulation of knowledge transfer in industry-university-research cooperative innovation network under different network scales. Scientific Reports, 10:4027.

Li, Chuanyun; Cao, Xia; Chi, Ming (2021). Research on an evolutionary game model and simulation of a cluster innovation network based on fairness preference. PLoS ONE, 15(1):e0226777.

Kummer, Vanessa. Three essays in statistical learning. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics.

Miller, Amalia R; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K (2020). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in Los Angeles. NBER Working Paper Series 28068, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gloor, Jamie Lee; Howe, Lauren; De Cremer, David; Yam, Kai Chi (Sam) (2020). The Funny Thing About Robot Leadership. European Business Law Review:online.