Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 16th

2:30 pm to 3:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Economic Theory Workshop - Nima Haphpanah
Pareto Improving Segmentation of Multi-product Markets (with Ron Siegel)

Tuesday September 17th

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 327
PhD Student Seminar -  Poorya Kabir

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 140
Macroeconomics Lunch Group (Faculty Only) - Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - Uris 332
Management Seminar - Todd Rogers
Associative Memory and Behavior Change

4:15 pm to 5:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Money-Macro Workshop - Andrea Eisfeldt
Human Capitalists (with Antonio Falato and Mindy Xiaolan)

Wednesday September 18th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 326
Finance Free Lunch - Rebecca DeSimone

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Schermerhorn 614
Psychology Departmental Colloquia - Maria de la Paz Fernandez
Sex Recognition and the Choice Between Courtship and Aggression

Thursday September 19th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 140
Finance Seminar - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach (with Plamen T. Nenov and Alp Simsek)

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 333
Marketing Seminar - Raluca Ursu (NYU)

Article of the Week
How We Make Decisions Depends on How Uncertain We Are
Researches from Dartmouth College recently published a study in the journal Nature Human Behavior showing differences between decisions made under risk and those made under uncertainty.  By administering a series of gambling tasks to humans and monkeys, the researchers found that both species changed their decision-making strategies depending on whether they knew risk probabilities or not.  In uncertain environments humans and monkeys opted for riskier choices, while when risk probabilities were known they were more risk-averse.