Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday November 16th

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

Tuesday November 17th

12:30pm to 2:00pm 307 Uris (Money-Macro Workshop - Ariel Zetlin-Jones)
Screening and Adverse Selection in Frictional Markets

2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 International Affairs Building (Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Ben Hermalin (Berkeley))
At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership

4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 International Affairs Building (Money-Macro Workshop - Mike Golosov)
Fiscal policy and debt management with incomplete markets (with Anmol Bhandari, David Evans, Thomas Sargent)

Wednesday November 18th  

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

Thursday November 19th 

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

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

2:15pm to 3:45pm Uris 301 (Finance Seminar - Boris Vallee (HBS))
Catering to Investors Through Product Complexity (with Claire Celerier)

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday November 17th

12:30 to 1:30pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bags - Chadly Stern and
Daniel Yudkin) 
Title Not Available 

Thursday November 19th 

4:00pm to 5:00pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Colloquia - Wendy Wood (USC))
Title Not Available  

News Article of the Week
Science Finally Explains Slackers
Neurologists at Oxford University used decision-making paradigms to explore the neural correlates of apathy and laziness. They found that those with increased apathy had greater neural activity when the decision required effort, which they propose may be due to the fact that the apathetic need more energy to carry through with the action.