Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday, December 9th

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Economic Theory Seminar - Yusufcan Masatlioglu (University of Maryland)  

Tuesday, December 10th

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm - Uris 329
PhD Student Seminar - Johnson Mo (NYU Stern) 

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Hassan Afrouzi

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar - Erin Mansur (Dartmouth College)

4:15 pm to 5:45 pm - International Affairs Building 1101
Money-Macro Workshop - Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern Univerity) 
Monetary Policy and Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates (with Benjamin K. Johannsen and Sergio Rebelo)


Article of the Week

What Brain Science Can Tell Us About Environmental Decision-Making
Dr. Nik Sawe, head of the Stanford Environmental Decision-Making and Neuroscience Lab, uses fMRI studies to gain insight into how individuals value the environment. He and colleague Brian Knutson found, for example, that thinking about how pollution would damage a valued environmental feature activates a part of the brain associated with disgust. In turn, this feeling of disgust predicted how much participants would donate to save that environmental feature.  Research like this aids pro-environment groups that can leverage the findings to run more lucrative fundraising campaigns.