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Newsletter 13: March 08, 2010

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, March 8

 

2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)

Steen Sehnert  (Columbia)

Title TBA

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Andrea Galeotti

 “Strategic Information Transmission in Networks”

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Thursday, March 11

 

12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 417 (CRED lab meeting)

Jonathan Baron (U. Penn)

“Citizens’ Concepts of Their Duty”

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

 

Monday, March 8

 

2.00-?, 19 W. 4th St. Room 624 (Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes

Alain Marciano (Université de Reims)

“Altruism and the Problem of Social Cost”

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Tuesday, March 9

 

12.00-?, 19 W. 4th St. Room 736 (Decision Theory Student Workshop)
David Dillenberger (U. Penn)

“Preferences for One-Shot Resolution of Uncertainty and Allais-Type Behavior”

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Wednesday, March 10

 

12.00-?, 44 West 4th Street, Room KMC 3-110 (Finance Seminar Series )

Joshua Rauh (Northwestern University)           

“Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth?”

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4.00-? Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
Aviad Heifetz (The Open University of Israel)

“Dynamic Unawareness and Rationalizable Behavior”

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Thursday, March 11

 

12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics seminar)

Gabriele Camera (Purdue)

“Strategies for long-run cooperation: Experiments with students and workers”

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Weblinks of the week

 

The power of context in choice: replicating the “good Samaritan” study of the contextual effect of time slack in a real-world setting

 

Researchers argue that altruistic behavior – operationalized as higher survival rates for women and children -- was more common in the sinking of the Titanic than in the sinking of the Lusitania because the Lusitania sank much more quickly.  But the same logic suggests that the benefits of higher social status are likewise time-sensitive, since first class passengers had a survival advantage on the Titanic but not on the Lusitania.

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18592-women-and-children-first-how-long-have-you-got.html

 

Daniel Kahneman gives a TED talk on the conflict between the experiencing self and the remembering self.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRlrBl-7Yg

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