Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday October 1st 

2:30pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
Economic Theory Workshop - Weijie Zhong (Columbia University)
Optimal dynamic information acquisition

Tuesday October 2nd

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 333 
Marketing Seminar - Melanie Brucks (Stanford)
The Creativity Paradox: Soliciting Creative Ideas Undermines Ideation

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 331
Columbia Macro Lunch Group - Oskar Zorrilla 
Title Not Available 

12:30pm to 1:30pm - Uris 327 
PhD Student Seminar - Danqing Mei 
Technology similarity and firm boundary

2:00pm to 3:30pm - Uris 301 
Management Seminar - Lamar Pierce (Washington University's Olin Business School)
Peer Bargaining and Productivity in Teams: Gender and the Inequitable Division of Pay

2:15pm to 3:45pm - 1101 IAB
Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar - Isabel Perrigne (Rice University)
Title Not Available 

4:15pm to 5:45pm - 1101 IAB
Money-Macro Workshop - Tommaso Porzio (University of California, San Diego)
Title Not Available 

Wednesday October 3rd 

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

6:00pm to 7:30pm - Warren 416 
PER Distinguished Lecture Series - Gary Charness
Cheap Talk and Credibility

Thursday October 4th 

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 333
Marketing Seminar - Avner Shlain (Berkeley)
More than a Penny's Worth: Left-Digit Bias and Firm Pricing

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 332
Microeconomics Faculty Lunch - Chris Moser
Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 142
Finance Seminar - Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Credit Rating Inflation and Firms’ Investments (with Chong Huang) 

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Thursday October 4th 

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Psychology Room 121
Cognition and Perception Colloquia - Jonathan Winawer (NYU)
Title Not Available 

Article of the Week
To Most People, All Male Lawmaking Bodies Are Seen As Less Legitimate
New research from Vanderbilt University finds that equal representation of men and women on a governmental body "confers institutional trust and acquiescence."  The researchers found that this effect occurred for issues specifically affecting women as well as other political issues. Further, they found that this did not change with the presence of a "token group representative."