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Newsletter 56: Oct 22, 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. 22
 
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
         David Heeger (NYU)
         Talk title TBA
         http://www.cns.nyu.edu/heegerlab/           
         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)
         Youngwoo Koh
         Decentralized College Admissions
         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)
         Gabriele Oettingen (NYU)
         “Future Thought and Behavior Change”
          http://psych.nyu.edu/oettingen/
          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. 23
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 331 (Marketing Seminar Series)
         Catherine Tucker (MIT)
         “Social Advertising”
         http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1975897
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Marketing Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Seminar Series)
         Nancy Rothbard (Wharton)
         Talk title TBA 
         https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1355/
         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)
         Zhana Zhanabekova (Columbia)
         "Do Community Health Centers Reduce the Use of Emergency Departments for Non-Urgent Care?"
         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)
         Giancarlo Corsetti (PER Visitor)
         The Mystery of the Printing Press: Self-fulfilling debt crises and monetary sovereignty (with Luca Dedola)
         To read an abstract of the paper please click here.
          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. 24
 
12.00-1.00, 509 Knox (New Pathways for the Social Sciences)
         Tukufu Zuberi (University of Pennsylvania)
         Talk title TBA
          iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series:
http://sociology.columbia.edu/colloquium-series-new-pathways-social-sciences
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Gordon Hanson
         Talk title TBA
         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)
         Jon Kolstad
         Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachuesetts Reform (with Amanda Kowalski)
         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)
         Deanna Barch (Wash. U.)
         "Motivational Impairments in Schizophrenia -- Neural and Psychological Mechanisms"        
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Colloquium:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/lists/colloquia.html
 
Thursday, Oct. 25
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
         Anna Kovner
         Talk title TBA
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Finance Seminar Series:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, Oct. 23 
 
4.15-5.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Presenter: Hanming Fang (UPenn)
         "Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform"        
         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. 24
 
12.30-2.30, Room 736, 19 West 4th St. (Special Topics Courses)
         Presenter: Ernst Fehr, Global Distinguished Professor of Economics
         Economic Origins of Authority-Power Abuse as a transaction cost in the Employment Relationship
         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
 
2.30-4.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Neuroeconomics Seminar)
         Presenter: Eero Simoncelli (NYU) 
         Embedding of prior probabilities in neural populations
         http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~lcv/pubs/makeAbs.php?loc=Simoncelli09a
         http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~lcv/pubs/makeAbs.php?loc=Ganguli10c
iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Neuroeconomics Seminar:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_neuroeconomics_seminar.html
 
Wednesday, Oct. 25
 
4.00-5.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Presenter: Phil Reny (University of Chicago) joint with Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
         "Sequential Equilibria of Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Types and Actions"
         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
 
Thursday, Oct. 25
 
12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.  (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Robert Slonim ( University of Sydney )
         “Blood Donation Registries: A Lab and Natural Field Experiment”
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For more information on CESS Experimental Economics Seminar Series:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2012/
 
 
Weblink of the week
 
The High Price of Ownership
As part of the Predictably Irrational series, this video explores the high price of ownership. Watch how Duke students value ACC basketball tickets -- who will value tickets at a higher price? How do we treat things differently when we own them? 
 
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