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Newsletter 53: Oct 1, 2012

The Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School

Welcome to the Center for Decision Sciences' Weekly Newsletter. Below you can find a list of events of interest. 

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
 
Monday, Oct. 1
 
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
         Elizabeth Tricomi
         " Contextual influences on value representation and learning processes in the human brain"
         http://tricomilab.wix.com/learninganddecisionmaking#!__people
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/lunch.html
 
2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)
         Andrzej Skrzypacz (PER visitor)
         Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market (with William Fuchs)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221783
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)
         Don Green (Columbia)
         “Social Norms and Collective Action: Evidence from Recent Field Experiments”
         http://polisci.columbia.edu/people/profile/82
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For more information on Psych Dept Social Snack:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/snack.html?mode=interactive&screen=view&dpRaGTbLww_save=true&dpRaGTbLww_comment=
 
Tuesday, Oct. 2
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)
         Florian Ederer (UCLA)
         "Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
         http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/florian.ederer/     
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars
 
 
2:15-4:00, 330 Uris (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)
         Steve Tadelis (Haas)
         "Measuring Returns to Paid Search Advertising: A Large Scale Field Experiment" (with Chris Nosko and Tom Blake)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on I.O., Organizations, and Strategy:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/industorg
 
 
4:15-5:45, 1101 IAB (Money Macro Seminar)
         David Love (Week-Long Visitor)
         “Optimal Rules of Thumb for Consumption and Portfolio Choice”
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221757
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Money Macro Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
Wednesday, Oct. 3
 
2.10-4.00, IAB 1011 (International Economics Workshop)
         Kamran Bilir
         “Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and Multinational Activity”
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7311928
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on International Economics Workshop:http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon
 
4.15-5.45, 1101 SIPA (Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar)  
         Mel Stephens
         “Schooling Laws, School Quality, and the Returns to Schooling” (with Dou-Yan Yang)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7312000
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Applied Microeconomics Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro
 
Thursday, Oct. 4
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
         Dimitris Papanikolau
         Talk Title TBA
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For more information on Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Tuesday, Oct. 2
 
12.30-2.00, Room 771, 6 Washington Place (Social Psychology Brown Bags)
         Presenter: Lila Davachi (NYU)
         Talk Title TBA
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For more information on the Social Psychology Brown Bags:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html#social
 
2.30-4.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Neuroeconomics Seminar)
         Presenter: Wei Ji Ma (Baylor College of Medicine)
         Normative models of vision and short-term memory
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Neuroeconomics Seminar:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_neuroeconomics_seminar.html
 
Wednesday, Oct. 3
 
4.00-5.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Tomasz Strzalecki (Harvard)
         "Recursive Stochastic Choice" - (Coauthored with Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University)) 
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For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics seminar:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.microeconomic
 
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