(Internal working papers DIUF ; 21-02)
The objective of this document is to provide a non-technical introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence. It is intended for anyone outside of the data science community curi-ous about the subject, such as researchers from other areas looking for new instruments, legal professionals confronted with automated decision making algorithms or legal tech tools, en-trepreneurs interested in...
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(Working Papers SES ; 524)
This paper examines how investors perceive business group membership in Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock price performance analysis reveals evidence of a time-varying and heterogeneous value of affiliation: investors discount business group affiliation during a market collapse, but are willing to pay a premium for affiliation during market recovery. Overall, this pattern is more...
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(IR-Papers ; 3)
Im 19. Jahrhundert hatte das Verbot religiöser Hochzeiten vor staatlichen Ehen das Ziel, das Recht auf Eheschliessung durchzusetzen und diskriminierende Praktiken, namentlich der ka-tholischen Kirche, zu unterbinden. Letzteres scheint heute obsolet geworden, doch hat das Voraustrauungsverbot im heutigen Migrations-zeitalter eine neue Existenzberechtigung. Der Staat verlangt und stellt damit...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article 1.5
In recent years, all over the globe we have seen intensifying economic exploitation, political disenfranchisement, social marginalization and cultural repression in all kinds of political regimes, from liberal democratic to authoritarian and dictatorial. Although the strategies vary with regard to regime and context, in all of them we observe that while a growing number of social groups are...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article 1.4
Since the peak of the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, much has been written on the topic of solidarity towards migrants. However, the perspective of migrants on the issue of solidarity and their practices of solidarity has been addressed less. This article aims to outline solidarity in the context of migration in more detail. Firstly, I will outline how solidarity played out towards migrants...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article 1.3
This paper examines similarities between attitudes towards European redistribution and attitudes towards national redistribution. It maps out possible reasons for expected similarities between the two spatial levels in the degree redistribution is supported and also the underlying mechanisms that foster support rates. To examine the underlying mechanisms, the paper employs a structural...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article 1.2
Although Solidarność was the largest mass movement in the history of after- war Europe, the experience of solidarity during that time in communist Poland has barely been analysed. Drawing on historical accounts of the events in the 1980s and press interviews with Solidarność members, this paper attempts to bridge this gap and identifies key aspects of the experienced solidarity. It...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article 1.1
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(Working Papers SES ; 523)
The housing wealth-to-income ratio has been increasing in most developed economies since the 1950s. We provide a novel theory to explain this long-term pattern. We show analytically that house prices grow in the steady state if i) the housing sector is more land-intensive than the non-housing sector, or ii) technological progress in the construction sector is weaker than in the non-housing...
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(Internal working papers DIUF ; 21-01)
This article is a literature review of Neuralink, brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) and their applications, followed by future possibilities of BMIs and their potential impacts. Currently, BMIs predominantly have therapeutic applications, such as helping people with spinal cord injury by allowing them to control a computer directly with their brain. However, BMIs can also improve learning,...
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