Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday November 7th

2:30pm to 4:00pm - 1101 IAB
Economic Theory Workshop - Bard Harstad
Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements

Tuesday November 8th

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 329
PhD Seminars - Vadim Elenev
Title Not Available

Wednesday November 9th

2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
International Economics Workshop - Chang-Tai Hsieh
Title Not Available

4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 SIPA
Applied Microeconomics - Conrad Miller
Title Not Available

Thursday November 10th

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 331
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only) - Olivier Darmouni
Title Not Available

2:15pm to 3:45pm - Uris 307
Finance Seminar - Lawrence Jin (Caltech)
A Model of Credit Market Sentiment (with Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson)

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Thursday November 10th

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Psychology Room 551
Cognition & Perception Colloquia - Melchi Michel (Rutgers University)
The Role of Visual Memory and Trans-Saccadic Integration in Search

Article of the Week
Former Skeptics Can Be Your Best Spokespeople
In the Harvard Business Review, Christopher Graves and Steve Simpson dissect and debate the candidates’ communications and marketing strategies and techniques for the upcoming election. Graves cites CDS co-director Eric Johnson on the principle of self-congruence, which is the idea that people must square their behavior and choices with their identity. How do they do this for the election? “You tell yourself you are still a Republican but dismiss this out-of-favor candidate as not a real Republican.”