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Newsletter 16: March 29, 2010

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”

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2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)

Kavita Reddy and Sylvia Rodriguez (Columbia)

Title TBA

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics)

Title TBA

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Tuesday, March 30

 

12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)

Jeff Nickerson  (Stevens Institute of Technology) 
Reciprocity and Reputation in Peer-Production Networks

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2:15-3:45, IAB 1027 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)

Lanier Benkard (Yale)

 “Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines”

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4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Money Macro Workshop)

Ananth Seshadri  (U. of Wisconsin/Madison)

Neoclassical Miracles” (with Rodolfo E. Manuelli)

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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?”

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Thursday, April 1

 

12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar)

Debu Purohit (Duke) alendar

Title TBA

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2.15-3.45, Uris 331 (Finance Division Seminar)

Denis Gromb (INSEAD)
Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion”(with Dimitri Vayanos)

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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”

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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

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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”

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12:00-1:20, Room KMC 3-11044 West 4th St. (Finance Seminar)

John Campbell (Harvard)

Title TBA
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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).

 

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/26877  

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