Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 21st

2:30pm to 4:30pm 1101 International Affairs Building (Economic Theory Workshop - Simone Galperti)
Title Not Available 

6:00pm to 7:30pm 141 Uris (Cognition and Decision Seminar - Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)) 
Experimental Economics on Reward Neurons

Tuesday September 22nd

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 332 (Management Seminar - Corinne Bendersky (Anderson))
Navigating social hierarchies: Upward mobility in status, power and prototypicality based hierarchies.

2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Ali Hortacsu (Chicago))
Advertising, Consumer Awareness, and Choice: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry (with Elisabeth Honka and Maria Ana Vitorino)

4:15om to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Money-Macro Workshop - Jesse Perla)
The Growth Dynamics of Innovation, Diffusion, and the Technology Frontier (with Jess Benhabib and Christopher Tonetti)

Wednesday September 23rd

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 SIPA (Applied Microeconomics - Xing Xia (Job Market))
Title Not Available 

Thursday September 24th

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 331 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Emily Breza)
Labor Market Impacts of Credit Market Information

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 307 (Marketing Seminar - Gideon Nave (CalTech))
Title Not Available 

2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris 301 (Finance Seminar - Andrew Karolyi) 
The U.S. Listing Gap (with Craig Doidge, and Rene Stulz)


Seminars of Interest at NYU

Thursday September 24th 

12:30pm to 1:30pm Psychology Room 551 (Perception Colloquia - Fiery Cushman (Harvard University))
Title Not Available 

News Article of the Week
You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic: Researchers explain human decision-making with physics theory
A new trend in psychology is using quantum physics to explain humans' (sometimes) paradoxical thinking and to also help researchers resolve certain contradictions among the results of previous psychological studies. Quantum physics deals with ambiguity in the physical world, while quantum cognition is what happens when humans have to deal with ambiguity mentally. Researchers from Ohio State University argue that the quantum point of view (instead of classical probability) enables humans to make important decisions in the face of uncertainty, and lets us confront complex questions despite our limited mental resources.