Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Tuesday February 5th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 327
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Mike Woodford
Title Not Available

Wednesday February 6th

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 142
Finance Free Lunch Seminar (Faculty Only) - Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Title Not Available

Thursday February 7th

4:15 pm to 5:45 pm - International Affairs Building 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar - Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
Title Not Available 

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Monday February 4th 

5:00pm to 6:30pm - NYU Rosenthal Pavilion 60 Washington Square South, 10th floor New York, NY 10012
Dean for Science Lecture 2019 - Elke Weber (Princeton University)
“Risk as Feelings” and “Perception Matters”: Assembling Human Preferences One Psychological Process at a Time

Tuesday February 5th

12:30pm to 2:00pm - 6 Washington Place, Room 551
Social Program Brown Bag - Sarah DiMuccio and Shahrzad Goudarzi
Politically Potent: Fragile Masculinity and Support for Drumpf and Republicans and Title TBA

Thursday February 7th

12:30pm to 2:00pm - 6 Washington Place, Room 551
Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium - Robb Rutledge (University College London)
A computational and neural model for mood dynamics

Article of the Week
Parrots Can Make Complex Economic Decisions, Scientists Discover
Are other species capable of weighing the decision between immediate gratification and economic investment?  A study from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology has found that four species of parrots were able to turn down immediate rewards and instead exchange tokens for food they deemed more valuable.