Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday, February 10th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 329
Finance - PhD Student Seminar


Tuesday, February 11th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Tommaso Porzio 

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - Uris 332
Management Seminar - Amanda Sharkey (University of Chicago) 
Risky Business: Status and Costs in the Market for Audit Services


Wednesday, February 12th

4:00 pm - Schermerhorn 614
Psychology Colloquium - Jeff Mogil (McGill University)
Pain, Sex, and Death


Thursday, February 13th

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 141
Finance Seminar - Rob Richmond (NYU) 
Origins of International Factor Structures (with Zhengyang Jiang)

12:30 pm to 1:45 pm - Uris 333
Microeconomics Faculty Lunch


Other Seminars of Interest

Tuesday, February 11th

2:40 pm to 4:00 pm - NYU, 19th W. 4th St., Room 517
Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Timothy Behrens (Oxford University)
Abstraction and inference in the hippocampal-frontal circuitry


Article of the Week

When does the wisdom of crowds improve decision-making?
Groups often make better decisions than individuals. But is this always the case? Wharton professor Barbara Mellers and doctoral student Ike Silver study factors that lead to "wise" crowds and those that do not. Both leaderless groups and groups with strong leaders exhibit strengths and weaknesses; in fact, a particularly predictive aspect of a wise crowd is a leader who is willing to change his or her mind. 


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