
S Galletta
@sergallet
Political Economy | Public Finance | AI + Econ | Senior Researcher at ETH Zรผrich @eth_en
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http://sergio-galletta.com 21-08-2019 18:31:27
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Hey! At Universitร degli Studi di Cagliari, we've just opened a one-year position suitable for pre-/current-/post-docs to work with me and Lorenzo Pandolfi on a project about public policies & firms (and on applied micro in general). The position is flexible and allows some distance working. Call (ITA/ENG)๐

1st edition of the EPSI (Economics of the Public Sector and Institutions) Conference. Keynotes by Raffaella Sadun and Jan Eeckhout. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2024. Send your paper to [email protected] and re-post! More details here: bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/โฆ

๐จ Just a couple of weeks left until the deadline (May 3) to submit your paper for presentation at the XV Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime at ETH Zurich on Oct 4-5!๐ข docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIโฆ



๐This year's Workship in AI+Economics, coming to you December 6th-7th, 2024, in Zurich๐จ๐ญ๐ co-organized with S Galletta & D. Yanagizawa-Drott CFP: ethz.ch/content/dam/etโฆ (submit by ๐๐๐น๐ ๐ญ๐ต๐๐ต) Keynote: Melissa Dell Pics from 2023: x.com/ellliottt/statโฆ



๐"Fuelling Organised Crime: The Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Theft" is out on The Economic Journal -We show that the Mexican War on Drugs pushed drug cartels into large-scale oil theft -Crackdowns can spill over to new areas and sectors, creating new illegal markets academic.oup.com/ej/advance-artโฆ



๐ฅณ Beyond excited that my first publication is now out QJE ๐ฅณ Thanks a ton for great comments by editors, referees, mentors, peers, and especially by my supervisors Elliott Ash, Ludger Woessmann, and Davide Cantoni. ๐ (open access): academic.oup.com/qje/advance-arโฆ An updated๐งต 1/8


Hereโs some new work Iโve done with Giacomo Opocher and Elliott Ash, testing whether AI chatbots trained on official voter guides can improve knowledge acquisition and reduce the cost of gathering information. #AI #CivicEngagement #AIandDemocracy #VoterEducation #DemocracyTech

๐ Using machine learning to detect corruption Today on VoxDev, Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich), S Galletta (ETH Center for Law & Economics) & Tommaso Giommoni (UvA Amsterdam) discuss how machine learning can improve corruption detection and prevention in Brazil: voxdev.org/topic/methods-โฆ