Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
Monday, March 29
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch) Kevin Ochsner (Columbia) “Common neural systems involved in empathy, social cognition and emotion regulation” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack) Kavita Reddy and Sylvia Rodriguez (Columbia) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop) Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Tuesday, March 30
12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar) Jeff Nickerson (Stevens Institute of Technology) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2:15-3:45, IAB 1027 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy) Lanier Benkard (Yale) “Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Money Macro Workshop) Ananth Seshadri (U. of Wisconsin/Madison) “Neoclassical Miracles” (with Rodolfo E. Manuelli) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Wednesday, March 31
4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium) Jon Kronsick (Stanford) “Social Psychology Under the Microscope: Do Our Classic Experiments Replicate When Participants Are Representative of the General Public Rather Than Convenience Samples of College Students?” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Thursday, April 1
12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar) Debu Purohit (Duke) Title TBA iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2.15-3.45, Uris 331 (Finance Division Seminar) Denis Gromb (INSEAD) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
5.15-6.45 Uris 332 (CDS Lecture Series) Jon Kronsick (Stanford) “What Americans Think About Climate Change - Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
Monday, March 29
2.00-?, 19 West 4th Street, Room 624 (Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes) Ben Powell (Suffolk University) “Praise and Profits: Cultural and Institutional Determinants of Entrepreneurship” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Wednesday, March 31
12.00-? Tisch Hall, Room 7-20 (Applied Microeconomics/Empirical IO (Stern)) Farzad Saidi (GSAS Econ) and Tingting Fan (Stern Marketing) “Informal Contracts, Risk Preferences, and Development Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
12:00-1:20, Room KMC 3-110, 44 West 4th St. (Finance Seminar) John Campbell (Harvard) Title TBA
Weblinks of the week
Finding some method in March madness
Dan Goldstein discusses a Yahoo combinatorial prediction market.
http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2010/03/22/predict-a-lot-and-thats-an-understatement/
A more in-depth discussion of the above
http://blog.oddhead.com/2008/12/22/what-is-and-what-good-is-a-combinatorial-prediction-market/
Research article in latest issue of Science argues that market institutions cause people to treat others more fairly
http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/18/science-shows-that-markets-mak
For those with 52 minutes to spare, Glenn Loury of Brown and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard discuss behavioral economics with particular focus on decision making among the poor (a project Sendhil is working on with Eldar Shafir, who will be the CDS speaker on April 15).
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