Seminars of Interest at Columbia
Monday April 4th 2:30pm to 4:00pm 1101 IAB (Economic Theory Workshop - Heng Liu)
Title Not Available Tuesday April 5th 12:30pm to 2:00pm Uris 332 (Management Seminar: Paul Ingram (Columbia Business School) and Modupe Akinola (Columbia Business School))
Paul Ingram - Does Value Homophily Exist in Friendship networks?
Modupe Akinola - Title Not Available 2:15pm to 3:45pm 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Victor Aguirregabiria (U Toronto))
A Microeconometric Dynamic Structural Model of Copper Mining Decisions (with Andres Luengo) 4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 IAB (Money-Macro Workshop - Eran Yashiv)
Frictions in DSGE Models: Revisiting New Keynesian vs New Classical Results (with Renato Faccini) Wednesday April 6th 4:15pm to 5:45pm 1101 SIPA (Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar - Henrik Kleven)
Title Not Available Thursday April 7th 12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 307 (Marketing Seminar - Jure Leskovec (Stanford))
Title Not Available 12:30pm to 1:30pm Uris 331 (Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Emily Breza)
Measuring the Average Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis 12:30pm to 1:30pm 457 Grace Dodge (PhD Seminars - Kunal Sachdeva)
Title Not Available 2:15pm to 3:45pm Grace Dodge 457 (Finance Seminar - Dimtri Vayanos (LSE))
Title Not Available 4:10pm to 5:10pm 614 Schermerhorn Hall (Psychology Department Colloquium Series - Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley))
When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults are: Theory formation, causal models and the evolution of learning and plasticity
Seminars of Interest at NYU
Tuesday April 5th 12:30pm to 2:00pm Psychology Room 551 (Social Psychology Brown Bag - Matthew Riccio and Qi Xu)
Title Not Available
Article of the Week
Decision-Making Is More Stressful When You're Uncertain, But It Can Also Lead To Better Performance
Researchers at the University College London explored how uncertainty affects making choices. They found that participants were less stressed when they believed no pain or certain pain would come from a decision compared to when they were unsure about the result of their choice. However, they also found that participants whose stress levels increased the most whenever conditions were uncertain proved themselves best at predicting outcomes.
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