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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
Monday, April 5
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch/Social Snack)
Lauren Atlas (Columbia University)
"Psychological enhancement of opioid analgesia: Brain and behavioral studies of remifentanil administration"
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2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop)
Matt Rabin (UC Berkeley)
Title TBA
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Tuesday, April 6
12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar)
Raphael Thomadsen (UCLA)
Title TBA
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2:15-3:45, IAB 1027 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)
Ariel Pakes (Harvard)
"Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work"
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4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Money Macro Workshop)
Alberto Alesina (Harvard)
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor (with Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc)
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Wednesday, April 7
12.00-1.30, Knox Hall 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series)
James Evans (Chicago)
“The Google Effect on Knowledge and Culture”
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4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)
Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth)
Title TBA
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4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium)
Laurie Santos (Yale University)
"The evolution of irrationality: insights from non-human primates"
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Thursday, April 8
2.15-3.45, Uris 331 (Finance Division Seminar)
Antoinette Schoar (MIT)
Title TBA
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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
Wednesday, April 7
12.00-? Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Macro Student Lunch Seminar)
Paul Klein (University of Western Ontario)
"Consumption Risk Sharing with Private Information when Shocks are Persistent"
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12.00-? Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
Stephen Morris (Princeton)
"Strategic Distinguishability and Interdependent Preferences”
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Weblink of the week
Barnard’s Rajiv Sethi discusses how social norms and informal enforcement devices help comedians protect their jokes from theft
http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2010/03/norms-as-substitute-for-laws.html
Justin Fox (author of The Myth of the Rational Market) considers why historians are much less influential in public policy debates than economists
http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2010/03/wresting-the-economic-debate-a.html
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