Subject: CDS Weekly newsletter

 

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, October 25

 

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

 Suparna Rajaram (Stony Brook University)

“Collaborative Memory”

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

Christine Loge (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo)

“The Role of Social Psychological Processes in Health and Educational Outcomes”

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim (University of Iowa)

“Endogenous Market Segmentation for Lemons”

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Tuesday, October 26

 

12.30-1.45, Uris 333 (Marketing Division Seminar; Note that the seminar will be held at unusual place)

Pedro Gardete (UC Berkeley)

“The Role of Market Information in the Dynamics of a Capital-Intensive Industry”

Abstract

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2:15-3:45, IAB 1027 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy Note that the seminar will be held at unusual place)

           Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)

“Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com” (with Seth Freedman).

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

Randall Wright (Upenn)
“Endogenous Credit Cycles" and "Banking: A Mechanism Design Approach”

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Wednesday, October 27

 

4.15-5.45, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)

Joseph Hotz (Duke University)
“Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals ” (with Peter Arcidiacono adn Songman Kang)

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4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 501 (Psych Dept Colloquium)

           Liz Phelps   (New York University)

“What Emotion Does”

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Thursday, October 28

 

2.15-3.45, Uris Hall 332 (Finance Division Seminar)

Ron Kaniel (Duke University)

“The delegated Lucas-tree” (with Peter Kondor)

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10.00-11.30, The Sergievsky Center Conference Room, 19th floor, the Presbyterian Hospital Building on CUMC (Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar)

Adrienne Tucker (Columbia University Medical Center, Sergievsky Center)

“Emotion regulation and cognitive control in aging”

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

 

Thursday, October 28

 

12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics seminar)

Yoram Halevy (University of British Columbia)

“Time Consistency: Stationarity and Time Invariance”
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Weblink of the week

 

How good is Amazon’s mechanical turk for conducting behavioral research?

 

http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2010/10/18/a-guide-to-conducting-behavioral-research-on-amazons-mechanical-turk/