Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 17th

2:30pm to 3:45pm - IAB 1101 
Economic Theory - Stephen Morris (Princeton University)
Expectations, Networks and Conventions (with Ben Golub) 

Tuesday September 18th

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 329
Columbia Macro Lunch Group - Yoon J. Jo 
Title Not Available 

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 327 
PhD Seminar - Farshid Abdi (New York University)
Title Not Available 

2:15pm to 3:45pm - IAB 1101
Industrial Organization and Strategy - Liran Einav (Stanford)
Long-Term Care Hospital: A Case Study in Waste (with Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney)

4:15pm to 5:30pm - Warren 416 
Book Talk by Nick Chater (Warwick Business School)
The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case Law, Not Naive Science 

4:15pm to 5:45pm - IAB 1101 
Money-Macro Workshop - Chad Jones (Stanford University)
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas 

Wednesday September 19th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 331
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only) - Tania Babina 
Title Not Available 

4:15pm to 5:45pm - IAB 1101
Applied Microeconomics Seminar: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar - Tim Foreman 
Title Not Available 

Thursday September 20th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 330
Marketing Seminar - Simona Botti (LBS)
Title Not Available

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 305 
Microeconomics Faculty Lunch - Amit Khandelwal 
Title Not Available

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 141 
Finance Seminar - Bryan Kelly (Yale University)
Characteristics Are Covariances: A Unified Model of Risk and Return (with Seth Pruitt and Yinan Su)

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday September 18th

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Meyer 551
Social Psychology Brown Brown Bags - Speaker TBA
Title Not Available

Article of the Week
How do we make snap decisions?
Researchers at Radboud University had participants made quick decisions under MRI. They would have to decide whether a cloud of dots on a screen was moving to the left or to the right in a matter of seconds. The team was particularly interested in the subthalamic nucleus (STN), a structure in the brain involved in the decision-making process. They found that the STN becomes more active during decision-making when there are several possible choices rather than just two options – a scenario that’s very relevant to everyday tasks.