Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia Monday, Oct. 15 12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
Bridgid Finn (Educational Technology Services)
"Post retrieval processing influences learning and memory"
http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/finn.html 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, 1101 IAB (Economic Theory Workshop)
Juan Jose Ganuza
"Minimizing Errors, Maximizing Incentives: Optimal Court Decisions and the Quality of Evidence" (with Fernando Gomez, and Jose Penalva)
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221923 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)
Adam Galinsky (Columbia)
“The Psychology of Hierarchy”
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/7516245/Adam+Galinsky iCal (to add this event to your calendar) 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. 16 12.30-1.45, Uris 3307 (Marketing Seminar Series)
Maferima Toure-Tillery (Chicago)
“The End Justifies the Means, but Only in the Middle”
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221771 iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars 2:15-4:00, 330 Uris (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)
Chris Conlon (Columbia)
"Nonlinear Rebate Contracts and Product Availability Experiments" (with Julie Mortimer)
To read a paper on this topic, written by Professor Conlon please click here. 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)
Mark Dean (PER Visitor)
"Shannon Entropy and Rational Inattention: Solutions, Behavioral Regularities, and Extensions" (with Andrew Caplin)
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7312116 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. 17 2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
Alexis Antonaides
“Retailer pass-through and its determinants using scanner data”
(with Nicole Zaniboni)
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221891 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, SIPA 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)
Craig Garthwaite
"The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets" (with William Evans and Timothy Moore)
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221919 iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Applied Microeconomics Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro 4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium)
Naomi Eisenberger (UCLA)
"Social pain and pleasure: The social neuroscience of rejection and connection"
http://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty_page?id=98&area=7 iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Psych Dept Colloquium:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/lists/colloquia.html Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU Monday, Oct. 15 4.15-5.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
Presenter: Bernardo Santos da Silveira (NYU)
"Identification and Estimation of a Plea Bargain Model"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.applied Tuesday, Oct. 16 12.30-2.30, Room 736, 19 West 4th St. (Special Topics Courses)
Presenter: Ernst Fehr, Global Distinguished Professor of Economics
Economic Consequences of Social Preferences: Social preferences and cooperation
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/Fehr1.pdf Email
cm172@nyu.edu to attend
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Special Topics Courses:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_ernst_fehr_classes.html Wednesday, Oct. 17 4.00-5.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
Daniel Martin (NYU)
"Strategic Pricing and Rational Inattention to Quality"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Microeconomic Theory Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.microeconomic Weblink of the week Americans, Swedes, and the Alchemy of Innovation(For a summary of the paper below)
Can’t We All Ne More Like Scandinavians?In an interdependent world, could all countries adopt the same egalitarianism reward structures and institutions? To provide theoretical answers to this question, we develop a simple model of economic growth in a world in which all countries benefit and potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier. A greater gap of incomes between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial e.ort and hence a country.s contributions to the world technology frontier. We show that, under plausible assumptions, the world equilibrium is necessarily asymmetric: some countries will opt for a type of cutthroat. capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others will free-ride on the cutthroat incentives of the leaders and choose a more .cuddly.form of capitalism. Paradoxically, those with cuddly reward structures,though poorer, may have higher welfare than cutthroat capitalists. but in the world equilibrium, it is not a best response for the cutthroat capitalists to switch to a more cuddly form of capitalism. We also show that domestic constraints from social democratic parties or unions may be bene.cial for a country because they prevent cutthroat capitalism domestically, instead inducing other countries to play this role.
