Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 14th 

2:30pm to 4:30pm 1101 International Affairs Building (Economic Theory Workshop - Hugo Hopenhayn)
"Dynamic Bidding in Second Price Auctions" (with Maryam Saeedi)

Tuesday September 15th

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 332 (Management Seminar - Katy DeCelles (Rotman))
Beyond the Bars: Impurities of prison work and implications for work-family conflict

2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Jesse Shapiro (Brown))
Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change

4:15om to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Money-Macro Workshop - David Baqaee)
Cascading Failures in Production Networks

Wednesday September 16th 

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 SIPA (Applied Microeconomics - Miika Rokkanen (Columbia Econ))
Partial Identification in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Manipulated Running Variables (with Francois Gerard and Christoph Rothe)

Thursday September 17th 

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 331 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Wei Jiang)
Influencing Control: Jawboning in Risk Arbitrage

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 307 (Marketing Seminar - Berkeley Dietvorst (Wharton))
Title Not Available 

2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris 301 (Finance Seminar - Johannes Stroebel) 
Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions? The Marginal Profitability of Consumer Lending During the Great Recession (with Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Neale Mahoney)


Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday September 15th 

2:30pm to 4pm NYU Department of Economics, 19 W 4th Street, Room 517 (Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Joshua T. Dudman (Howard Hughes Medical Institute))
The Vigorous Pursuit of Reward

Thursday September 17th 

12:30pm to 1:30pm Psychology Room 551 (Cognition & Perception Colloquia - Mark Blumberg (University of Iowa))
Title Not Available 

News Article of the Week
Should Governments Nudge Us to Make Good Choices?
Our decisions are constantly influenced by the way in which they are presented. Over the last few years, governments have begun to nudge people toward better decisions for both themselves and society. For example, research conducted by CDS and colleagues shows that asking people to generate reasons why they should claim Social Security later before making a decision regarding when to claim leads to a delay. In general, a delay in claiming age is often better for those who expect to live longer. The article goes on to discuss the benefits of using choice architecture in government related decisions.