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Newsletter 57: Nov 5, 2012

The Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
 
Tuesday, Nov. 6
 
4:15-5:45, 1101 IAB (Money Macro Seminar)
         Neil Mehrotra
         “Sectoral Shocks, the Beveridge Curve and Monetary Policy” (with Dmitriy Sergeyev)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7312691
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Money Macro Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
Wednesday, Nov. 7
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Stefania Garetto
         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)
         Camille Landais
         “Taxes, Wage Bargaining and Migration: Evidence from Top-Income Foreigners in Denmark”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Applied Microeconomics Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro
 
Thursday, Nov. 8
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 331 (Marketing Seminar Series)
         Melanie Rudd (Stanford)
         "Awe Expands People's Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being"
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221953 http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221955 http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221954
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For more information on Marketing Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars
 
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
         Vikrant Vig
         Talk title TBA
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For more information on Finance Seminar Series:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, Nov. 5 
 
4.15-5.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Presenter: Jean-Francois Houde (UPenn)
         "Price Negotiation in Differentiated Products Markets: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Market"
         http://econ.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/26426/Houde_11052012.pdf
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For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.applied
 
Tuesday, Nov. 6
 
12.30-2.00, 6 Washington Place, Room 771 (Social Psych Brown Bag)
         Presenter: Tobias Rothmund (University of Koblenz-Landau)
         Talk title TBA
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For more information on the Social Psych Brown Bag:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html
 
Wednesday, Nov. 7
 
4.00-5.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Presenter:  Anna Gumen (NYU), Efe Ok and Andrei Savochkin
         "Decision-Making under Subjective Risk: Toward a General Theory of Pessimism"
         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, Nov. 8
 
12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.  (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Guillaume Hollard ( Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne )
         Talk title TBA
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For more information on CESS Experimental Economics Seminar Series:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2012/
 
 
Weblink of the week
 
Some Consequences of Having Too Little
Poor individuals often engage in behaviors, such as excessive borrowing, that reinforce the conditions of poverty. Some explanations for these behaviors focus on personality traits of the poor. Others emphasize environmental factors such as housing or financial access. We instead consider how certain behaviors stem simply from having less. We suggest that scarcity changes how people allocate attention: It leads them to engage more deeply in some problems while neglecting others. Across several experiments, we show that scarcity leads to attentional shifts that can help to explain behaviors such as overborrowing. We discuss how this mechanism might also explain other puzzles of poverty.
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