Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia Monday, Nov. 26 12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
Matthew Crump (Brooklyn College)
"Coordinated cognition: Insights into hierarchical control processes from the psychology of skilled typewriting"
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=1059 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)
Geoffroy de Clippel
“Behavioral Implementation”
To read the paper click
here.
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)
BJ Casey (Sackler Institute - Weill Medical College of Cornell)
“Your Brain on Adolescence”
http://www.sacklerinstitute.org/cornell/people/bj.casey/ 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, Nov. 27 12.30-1.45, Uris 307 (Marketing Seminar Series)
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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)
Adam Kleinbaum (Dartmouth)
"Inside the Black Box of the Corporate Staff: Social Networks and the Implementation of Corporate Strategy"
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/adam.kleinbaum/ 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)
Antoinette Schoar (MIT - Sloan School)
"The Technological and Agency Effect of IT: A Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees (with Daniel Paravisini)
To read the paper 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)
Javier Bianchi (Week-long visitor)
International Reserves and Rollover Risk (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez)
To read the paper 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, Nov. 28 2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
Pablo Fajgelbaum
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iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on International Economics Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon 4.10-5.30, Schermerhorn 614 (Psych Dept Colloquium)
Lila Davachi (NYU)
Talk title TBA
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/davachi/ iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Psych Dept Colloquium:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/lists/colloquia.html 4:15-5:45, SIPA 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)
Robert Jensen
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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. 29 2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
Raghu Sundaram
"CDS Auctions and Informative Biases in CDS Recovery Rates" (with Sudip Gupta)
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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, Nov. 26 4.15-5.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
Presenter: Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
"University Production Functions and the Choice of College Major: Evidence from California"
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here.
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, Nov. 27 12.30-2.00, 6 Washington Place, Room 771 (Social Psych Brown Bags)
Presenter: Malia Mason (Columbia)
Talk title TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Social Psych Brown Bag:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html#socialbbs 2.30-4.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Neuroeconomics Seminar)
Presenter: Botond Koszegi - (UCBerkeley)
“A model of focusing in economic choice”
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/papers/Koszegi1.pdf 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, Nov. 28 4.00-5.00, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
Presenter: Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern University)
Talk title TBA
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. 29 12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
Daniel J. Benjamin (Cornell University)
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iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on CESS Experimental Economics Seminar Series:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2012/ Weblink of the week How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of realityUnrealistic optimism is a pervasive human trait that influences domains ranging from personal relationships to politics and finance. How people maintain unrealistic optimism, despite frequently encountering information that challenges those biased beliefs, is unknown. We examined this question and found a marked asymmetry in belief updating. Participants updated their beliefs more in response to information that was better than expected than to information that was worse. This selectivity was mediated by a relative failure to code for errors that should reduce optimism. Distinct regions of the prefrontal cortex tracked estimation errors when those called for positive update, both in individuals who scored high and low on trait optimism. However, highly optimistic individuals exhibited reduced tracking of estimation errors that called for negative update in right inferior prefrontal gyrus. These findings indicate that optimism is tied to a selective update failure and diminished neural coding of undesirable information regarding the future.
