Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
Monday, Feb. 15
2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack) Patrick Wilson (Columbia U. Mailman School of Public Health) “Exploring Situational Relationships among Mood, Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior among HIV+ Gay Men” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop) Alberto Bisin (NYU) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Tuesday, Feb. 16
12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar) Leigh McAlister (UT Austin) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2:15-3:45, Uris 306 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy) Nicolas Schutz (Columbia) “Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, and Upstream Competition” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Money Macro Workshop) Larry Jones (University of Minnesota) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Wednesday, Feb. 17
4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar) Fabian Lange (Yale) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium) Jamie Pennebaker (University of Texas) “What Our Words Say About Us” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Thursday, Feb. 18
2.15-3.45 Uris Hall, Location TBA (Finance Division Seminar) Gary Gorton (Yale) “Ignorance and the Optimality of Debt for the Provision of Liquidity” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
Tuesday, Feb. 16
2.30-3.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (NeuroEconomics Seminar) Ian Krajbich (Caltech) “Using Neuroscience to Overcome Incentive Compatibility Problems in Economics” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4.00-?, Room KMC 7-191, Henry Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th St. (Industrial Organization Seminar) Jan Eeckhout (UPenn) “Identifying Sorting” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Thursday, Feb. 18
12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar) Antoni Bosch-Domènech (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) “On the Role of Non-equilibrium Focal Points as Coordination Devices” iCal (to add this event to your calendar) Weblinks of the week
Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain-the amygdala.
http://www.physorg.com/news184860612.html
The Real Struggle behind Climate Change - A War on Expertise
The schism over global climate change (GCC) has become an intellectual chasm, across which everyone perceives the other side as Koolaid-drinkers. Although I have mixed views of my own about the science of GCC, … I'm afraid all the anecdotes and politics-drenched "questions" flying about right now aren't shedding light. They are, in fact, quite beside the point. That is because science itself is the main issue: its relevance and utility as a decision-making tool.
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