Seminars of Interest at Columbia
Monday October 24th 2:30pm to 4:00pm - 1101 IAB
Economic Theory Workshop - Teck Yon Tan
Tile Not Available Tuesday October 25th 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 303
Marketing Seminar - Lisa Zaval (Columbia)
Title Not Available 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Grace Dodge 363
PhD Seminars - Melk Caspar Bucher
Title Not Available 2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
Industrial Organization & Strategy Seminar - Zach Brown (Columbia)
An Empirical Model of Price Transparency and Markups in Healthcare 4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 IAB
Money-Macro Workshop - Fabrizio Perri
Exchange Rates Policies at the Zero Lower Bound (with Manuel Amador, Javier Banchi, and Luigi Bocola) Wednesday October 26th 2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
International Economics Workshop - Ildiko Magyari
Title Not Available 4:10pm to 5:10pm - 614 Schermerhorn Hall
Psychology Department Colloquium Series - Katherine Milkman (University of Pennsylvania)
Title Not Available 4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 SIPA
Applied Microeconomics - Pierre Bachas
Title Not Available Thursday October 27th 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 331
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only) - Ye Li
Title Not Available 2:15pm to 3:45pm - Uris 141
Finance Seminar - Claire Celerier (Toronto)
Bank Branch Supply and the Unbanked Phenomenon (with Adrien Matray) 5:00pm to 6:00pm - Uris Calder Lounge
Columbia Aging Center Distinguished Lecture - David E. Bloom (Harvard)
Global Demographic Change and Its Economic Implications
RSVP Required: cmh2197@columbia.edu
Seminars of Interest at NYU
Tuesday October 25th 2:30pm to 4:00pm - 19 W 4th Street, Room 517
Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Giorgio Coricelli (USC)
Context Dependent Learning Thursday October 27th 12:30pm to 1:30pm - Psychology Room 551
Cognition & Perception Colloquia - Chris Moore (Brown University)
Title Not Available
Article of the Week
Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products
New research suggests that given the challenges of getting rid of poorly performing products, large companies put important product decisions in the hands of more senior managers. While centralizing decision making in this way can often overburden managers and be a drag on the creative freedom of designers, it has one clear advantage: it speeds the termination of products. | 
