Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia Monday, Apr 1 12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Dept Social Cog Snack)
Charlotte Prevost
"Cracking the almond: New insights into human amygdala
circuitry in associative learning using high-resolution
imaging"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar)For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/socialcognitive.html 2.30-4.00, IAB (Economic Theory Workshop)
Eduardo Perez
“Certifiable Pre-Pay Communication: Full Disclosure”
(with Jeanne Hagenbach and Frederic Koessler )
To read a paper on this topic, please 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 Tuesday, Apr 2 12.30-1.30, 307 Uris
Marketing Seminar Series
Chris Janiszewski (U Florida)
“The Value of Time”
To read a paper on this topic, please click
here iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Marketing Seminar Series:
https://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars 12.30-1.30, 332 Uris
Management Division Seminar
David DeSteno (Northeastern)
“Can I trust you? Unlocking the cues to trust at zero-
acquaintance”
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars 2.15-3.45, 1101 IAB
IO and Strategy Seminar
Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich)
“Loss aversion and ex post inefficient renegotiation”
(with Fabian Herweg)
To read a paper on this topic, please click
here iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the IO and Strategy Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/industorg 4.15-5.45, 1101 IAB
Money Macro Seminar
David Berger
“Consumption dynamics during recessions”
(with Joseph Vavra)
To read a paper on this topic, please click
here iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Money macro seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money Wednesday, Apr 3 2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB
International Economics Workshop
Dave Donaldson (MIT)
“Evolving comparative advantage and the impact of
climate change in agricultural markets: evidence from a
9 million field partition of the earth”
(with Arnaud Costinot and Cory Smith)
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here iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the 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
Orazio Attanasio
“Early childhood development in Columbia: impact of
stimulation intervention and estimation of human capital
accumulation production function
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro Thursday, Apr 4 12.30-2.00, Uris 301
Nassim Taleb (NYU Polytechnic Institute)
“Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder”
Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became
a scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006. Although he
is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at
New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, he self-funds
his research and operates in the manner of independent
scholars. Taleb is the author of The Black Swan
(2007–2010) and Antifragile (2012). His works focuses on
decision making under uncertainty, as well as technical and
philosophical problems with probability and
metaprobability, in other words "what to do in a world we
don't understand".
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) To RSVP for this event:
https://groups.gsb.columbia.edu/CDS/rsvp?id=143316 2.15-3.45, Uris Hall
Finance Seminar
Victoria Ivashina
Topic TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance 5.15-6.45, Uris 333
Martin Weber “Time inconsistent preferences and the annuitization
decision”
Abstract As defined benefit pensions decline and life
expectancy increases there is a growing need to take
care for one’s income after retirement.
Defined contribution plans have become more popular
where people save a defined rate during the time they
work which due to smart investing should give them a
sum of money once they are about to retire. At that point,
people have to choose whether they take that lump sum
or to annuitize the amount. The fact that people tend
to choose the lump sum even if economic reasons
suggest that they should choose the annuity is called the
annuity paradox.In a large online survey we find that
people behave time inconsistent: Older people have a
stronger tendency to choose the lump sum than younger
people when they predict today what to choose when they
are old. This effect is considerably stronger for participants
that answer simple time preference questions inconsistently.
Our findings suggest to think about precommitment
devices for the annuitization decision already at the time
when the defined benefit plan is started.
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Martin Weber talk:
https://groups.gsb.columbia.edu/CDS/rsvp?id=121502 Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU Monday, Apr 1 2.00-3.00, NYU Neuroscience Colloquia
Skirtball Institute Medical Center
4
th floor seminar room 540 First Avenue
Virginia Lee (UPenn)
Topic TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on NYU Neuroscience Colloquia:
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/colloquia/ 4.30-5.30, Room 517, 19W 4
th Street
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Eleonora Patacchini (Syracuse University)
“Peer Effects: social multiplier or social norms?”
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, Apr 2 12.30-2.00, Room 771, 6 Washington Place
Social Psych Brown Bag
Seth Dickinson
“Proactive control of racial bias”
Joanna Sterling
“Terror management in the 2012 presidential election”
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Social psychology brown bag:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html 2.30-4.00, Room 517, 19West 4
th street
Neuro-economics Seminar
Aldo Rustichini (U of Minnesota)
“ A neuronal theory of the decision process”
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here iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the neuro-economics seminar:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_neuroeconomics_seminar.html Wednesday, Apr 3 4.00-5.00, Room 517 19 West 4
th street
Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Simon Board (UCLA)
“Revenue management with forward-looking buyers”
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, Apr 4 4.00-5.00, Room 551, 6 Washington Place
Social Neuroscience Colloquia
Amy Arnsten (Yale)
Title TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar)For more information on the NYU Social colloquia:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html Weblink of the week Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at
Carnegie Mellon Universityin Pittsburgh, studies how we make these choices. In a series of provocative experiments, he has shown that despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently.
