Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday April 20th


12pm to 1:30pm 200 B Schermerhorn (Psychology Department Monday Seminar - Master's Talks)

2pm to 4pm 1101 IAB (Economic Theory Workshop - Alp Atakan)
Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices (with Mehmet Ekmekci)


Tuesday April 21st


12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 332 (Management Seminars - JP Eggers (NYU) )
Entry Logics: Resources, Attractiveness, and the Logic(s) of Product Portfolio Expansion

2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar - Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth))
Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation: Employee-level Evidence from Google

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Money Macro Seminar - Martin Schneider)
Payments, Credit and Asset Pricing (with Monica Piazzesi)


Wednesday April 22nd


2pm to 4pm 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop - Kamran Bilir)
The Impact of Innovation in the Multinational Firm


Thursday April 23rd


12:30pm to 1:30pm  Uris 331 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Tomasz Piskorski)
Title Not Available

2:15pm to 3:45pm TBA (Finance Seminar (Shawn Cole))
How Does Rick Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Xavier Gine and James VIckery)

4pm to 5pm Faculty House (Language and Cognition Seminar - Ellen Bialystok (York University))
Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind And Brain


Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday April 21st


12:30pm to 2:00pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bags - Alexa Hubbard, Anne, Hill)
Title Not Available


Thursday April 23rd


11:00am to 12:00pm TBA (Psychiatry Grand Rounds - Joel Yager, MD)
Title Not Available

12:30pm-1:30pm 19 West 4th Street, Room 517 (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar - Yesmin Orhun)
Title Not Available


Friday April 24th


5:00pm - 6:00pm 4 Washington Place, Room 815 (Growing up in science - Hannah Bayer)
Title Not Available


News Article of the Week
Overconfidence in Technology May Influence Decision-Making
Researchers at the University of Missouri found that people tend to overestimate the success rates of new technologies. They propose that this "technology effect" is driven by constant exposure to technology, where often only the successes, not the failures, are noted. This effect can influence important decisions including forecasts of business performance.