Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday November 2nd 

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

Wednesday November 4th 

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics - Andrew Shephard)
Title Not Available 

6:00pm to 7:30pm 208 Waren Hall (Cognition and Decision Seminar - David Laibson)
Myopia and Discounting

Thursday November 5th 

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

12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 329 (PhD Student Seminar - Kunal Sachdeva)
Title Not Available 

2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris 307 (Finance Seminar - Jonathan Parker (MIT))
Why Don’t Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from a 25 million dollar experiment

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday November 3rd 

12:30 to 1:30pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bags - Michael Gilead
and Peter Mende-Siedlecki) 
Title Not Available 

News Article of the Week
This is Your Brain on Decision-making 
Professor Michael Platt, of Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his latest research on the confluence of factors involved in decision-making. These include the primitive parts of the brain that respond to the most basic of needs and the push and pull of external forces and opinions.