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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

Monday, April 19

2.30-4.00, IAB 1027 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Kareen Rozen (Yale)

TBA

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Tuesday, April 20

12.30-2.00, Uris 306 (Money Macro Workshop)

Nicola Pavoni (University College London)
“Ramsey Asset Taxation Under Asymmetric Information”

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

Pierre Picard (Ecole Polytechnique)

“Participating Insurance Contracts and the Rothschild-Stiglitz Equilibrium Puzzle”

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Wednesday, April 21

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

Thomas Lemieux (U. of British Columbia)
“Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure” (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin)

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4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium)

James Curley (Columbia)

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Thursday, April 22

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

Harrison Hong (Princeton)

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

Monday, April 19

2.00-?, 19 West 4th Street, Room 624 (Colloquium on Market Institutions & Economic          

Processes)

Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)

“History, Causal Explanation, and ‘Basic Economic Reasoning’”

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Wednesday, April 21

12.00-? 44 West 4th Street, Room KMC 3-110 (Finance Seminar Series)

Esther Duflo (MIT)

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Thursday, April 22

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

“Ethnicity, Community and Local Public Good Provision” (with Catherine Eckel and Rachel Croson)

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Weblink of the week

An interview with Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom on why commons dilemmas do not always need to be tragic.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145889/the_woman_who_just_might_save_the_planet_and_our_pocketbooks?page=1

A long, but provocative, essay on how libertarianism is consistent with feudalism.

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/15/libertarianism-property-rights-and-self-ownership/#more-15337

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