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Newsletter 18: April 12, 2010

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, April 12

 

12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch/Social Snack)

Danny Oppenheimer (Princeton)

Title TBA

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Fuhito Kojima (Stanford)

Implementing Random Assignments: a Generalization of the Birkhoff-Von Neumann Theorem

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Tuesday, April 13

 

12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar)

A. Yesim Orhum (Chicago)

Title TBA

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12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)

Pierre Azoulay (MIT)
Status, Shmatus” (with Toby Stuart and Yanbo Wang)

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2:15-3:45, Uris 306 (CDS Seminar)

Timothy A. Salthouse (University of Virginia)

“Consequences of Age-Related Cognitive Decline”

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2:30-4:00, IAB 1027 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)

Glen Weyl (Harvard)

“Concordance among Holdouts” (with Scott Duke Kominers)

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

Marco Bassetto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Public Investment and Budget Rules for State vs. Local Governments

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Wednesday, April 14

 

12.00-1.30, Knox Hall 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series)

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke)

“The Invisible Weight of Whiteness”

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4:15-5:45, IAB 1027 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)

Kasey Buckles (U. of Notre Dame)

Title TBA

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4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium)

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University)

“Remembering events past: Conjunctions, integration, and errors in human MTL”

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Thursday, April 15

 

12:00-1:30pm, Schermerhorn 417 (CRED lab)

Ganna Pogrebna (Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Volkswagen Foundation)
“The Effect of Pregnancy and Child-bearing on Attitudes towards Risk”

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2.15-3.45, Uris Hall 331 (Finance Division Seminar)

Per Stromberg (Stockholm School of Economics)
Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts” (with Ulf Axelson, Tim Jenkinson and Michael S. Weisbach)

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Thursday, April 15 – Friday, April 16

 

Faculty House at Columbia University

Synthese Conference 2010 on Epistemology and Economics

9:00 am - 5:00 pm both days

 

Registration free but required.  To register, simply send a message to

synthese.conference.2010@gmail.com with “Synthese registration” in the subject and your name and affiliation in the body.

 

Invited papers by the following: 

Alexandru Baltag (Oxford)

Cristina Bicchieri (Penn)

Adam Brandenburger (NYU) 

Christian List (LSE) 

Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)

 

Contributed papers by the following: 

 

Horacio Arlo-Costa (Carnegie Mellon) and Paul Pedersen (Carnegie Mellon)

David Etlin (Leuven)

Brian Hill (HEC Paris)

Olivier Roy (Groningen) and Eric Pacuit (Tilburg)

Giacomo Sillari (Penn)

 

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

 

Monday, April 12

 

2.00-?,  Room624, 19 West 4th St. (Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic Processes)

Jeff Miron (Harvard)

“What do Economists Know About Crime?”

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Tuesday, April 13

2.30-3.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Psychology/NeuroEconomics seminar)

Robert Willis (University of Michigan)

“Cognitive Economics and Human Capital”

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Thursday, April 15

 

12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics seminar)

Ragan Petrie (George Mason University)
A Field Experiment on Bargaining” (with Marco Castillo, Maximo Torero, Lise Vesterlund)

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12:00-1:20, Room 4-110Henry Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th St. (Stern Law & Finance Seminar)

René M. Stulz (Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)

“Why Did Some Banks Perform Better During the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation”

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Weblink of the week

 

Colleges outsource grading to India

 

http://chronicle.com/article/Outsourced-Grading-With/64954/

 

 

 

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