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Newsletter 30: Nov 8, 2010

Subject: CDS Weekly newsletter

 

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, November 8

 

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

 Baruch Eitam, (Columbia Universtiy)

Title TBA

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

Ernesto Reuben (Columbia University)

The glass ceiling in experimental markets

Abstract

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Colin Stewart

Price distortions with high-frequency trading (joint with Jakub Steiner)

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Tuesday, November 9

 

12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar)

Masakazu Ishihara (Univ. of Toronto)
Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games

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12.30-2.00, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)

Uri Simonsohn (Upenn)

Spurious? Name Similarity Effects (Implicit Egotism) in Marriage, Job and Moving Decisions

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2.15-3.45, Uris 306 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)

Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University)

Business as Usual: A Consumer Search Theory of Sticky Prices and Asymmetric Price Adjustment (with Luis Cabral).

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

Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago)
“Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings and the Liquidity Trap” (with Guido Lorenzoni)

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Wednesday, November 10

 

12.00-1.30, Knox Hall 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series)

Bogdan Vasi, (Columbia University)

“Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry”

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4:15-5:45, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)

Jens Ludwig (U of Chicago)
The effects of school desegregation on crime (with David A. Weiner and Byron F. Lutz)

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4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 501 (Psych Dept Colloquium)

           Ran Hassin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Russell Sage Foundation)

The Human unconscious: Some New Answers to Old Questions

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Thursday, November 11

 

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

Brian Rakitin (Columbia University Medical Center, Sergievsky Center)

Title TBA

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

Gurdip Bakshi (University of Maryland College Park)

Title TBA

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Weblink of the week


A Hungarian economist named Melchior Palyi foresaw the credit crisis of 2008 in the 1930s.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704575596382345085258.html

A commercial website explores willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept for some unusual goods:

http://howmutch.com



 

 

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