Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 28th

2:30pm to 4:30pm 1101 International Affairs Building (Economic Theory Workshop - Andreas Blume)
Language Games

Tuesday September 29th

2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Ed Lazear (Stanford))
Demographics and Entrepreneurship (with James Liang and Hui Wang)

4:15om to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Money-Macro Workshop - Nicolas Werquin)
Income Taxation with Frictional Labor Supply

Wednesday September 30th

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 329 (PhD Seminar - Aleksey Semonov) 
Title Not Available 

4:10pm to 5:10pm 614 Schermerhorn Hall (Psychology Colloquium Series - Russell Fernald (Stanford University))
Cognitive skills used in establishing social hierarchies

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics - Elliot Ash (Job market))
Title Not Available 

Thursday October 1st

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 333 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Harry Mamaysky)
Does Unusual News Forecast Market Stress?

2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris 301 (Finance Seminar - Adriano Rampini(Duke)) 
Financing Durable Assets

Friday October 2nd 

12:30pm to 1:45pm TBA (Competitive Strategy Seminars - Myrto Kalouptsidi) 
Title Not Available 

1:00pm to 4:00pm 209 Havemeyer Hall (Economics PER Distinguished Lecture - Michael Woodford)
Inattentive Choice 
The lecture will provide an overview of reasons for interest in the hypothesis of inattention and some simple illustrations of its consequences for economic modeling.


Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday September 29th

12:30pm to 2pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bag - Eric Vanman (University of Queensland)) 
Title Not Available 

News Article of the Week
Researchers find suicide trigger in how we make decisions
Researchers at McGill university have found that decision-making patterns are associated with suicide vulnerability. That is, those who have a tendency to make risky decisions are at greater vulnerability, as they tend to select solutions that provide high risk short-term benefits rather than safer long-term benefits.