Newsletters‎ > ‎

Newsletter 27: Oct 18, 2010

Subject: CDS Weekly newsletter

 

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, October 18

 

12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)

 Yaakov Stern (Columbia University Medical Center)

Cognitive reserve: From theory to intervention

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

2.40-3.55, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)

Leonard Lee (Columbia University)

“Consistent Consumer”

Abstract 

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Massimo Morelli (Columbia University)

Internal Hierarchy and Stable Coalition Structures  (with In-Uck Park)

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

Tuesday, October 19

 

12.30-2.00, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)

Jordan Siegel (Harvard)

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

2:15-3:45, Uris 306 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)

Niko Matouschek (Northwestern - Kellogg School)
The Burden of Past Promises and the Evolution of Trust (with Jin Li).

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

4:15-5:45, IAB 1101 (Money Macro Workshop)

Guillermo Ordonez (Yale University)

Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns(with Andrew Atkeson and Christian Hellwig)
Paper

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

 

Monday, October 18

 

4.15-5:30, 19 W. 4th St. Room 517 (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)

Dan Silverman  (University of Michigan) 

Title TBA

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

Wednesday, October 20

 

4.00-5:30 Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)

Debraj Ray (NYU)
Title TBA

iCal (to add this event to your calendar)

 

 

Weblink of the week

 


Instead of a single weblink, this week we provide an entire online debate reacting to Greg Mankiw, Harvard economist , New York Times columnist, and former Chairman of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, who complains about the disincentive effects of higher tax rates:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/business/economy/10view.html?_r=2&ref=business

And the blogosphere reacts:

Brad DeLong:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/10/greg-mankiw-quits-the-new-york-times.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29

Mark Thoma:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/10/ego-or-money.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View+%28EconomistsView%29%29

Andrew Gelman:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/10/mankiws_margina.html
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/10/update_on_manki.html

Tyler Cowen:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/10/people-are-upset-at-greg-mankiw.html#comments

Ryan Avent:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/10/taxation

And Mankiw gets the “last” word:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/10/response-to-queries.html

Comments