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Newsletter 73: Apr 8, 2013

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, Apr 8
 
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Dept Social Cog Snack)
         Stacey Sinclair (Princeton)
         “Birds of a feather: attitudes toward Blacks shape
         affiliation among Whites”
         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)
          Alex Frankel
          “Suspense and Surprise”
          (with Jeffrey Ely and Emir Kamenica)
          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 9
 
12.30-1.30, 332 Uris
         Management Division Seminar
         Joel Baum (Rotman)
         “Epinets: the epistemic structure and dynamics of social
         networks”
         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
         Jason Blevins (Ohio State)
         “Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models in
         continuous time” (with Peter Arcidiacono,
         Patrick Bayer and Paul Ellickson)
         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
         Greg Kaplan
         “Shopping externalities and self fulfilling
         unemployment fluctuations ”
         (with Guido Menzio)
         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 10
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB
         International Economics Workshop
         Diego Puga (CEMFI)
         “Learning by working in big cities”
         (with Jorge De la Roca)
         To read a paper on this topic, please click 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
 
 
Thursday, Apr 11
 
2.15-3.45, Uris Hall
         Finance Seminar
         Bruno Biasis
         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
 
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, Apr 8 
 
12.30-1.30, 4-6 Washington Place
         NYU Neuroscience Colloquia
         Thomas Jessell
         Title TBA
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the NYU Neuroscience Colloquia:
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/colloquia/
 
4.30-5.30, Room 517, 19W 4th Street
         Applied Microeconomics Workshop
         Bas van der Klaauw (VJ University Amsterdam)
         “The returns to medical school in a regulated labor market:
         Evidence from admission lotteries”
         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 9
 
4.30-5.30, Room 517, 19W 4th Street
         Applied Microeconomics Workshop
         Orazio Attanasio (University College London)
         Topic TBA
         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
 
 
Wednesday, Apr 10
 
4.00-5.00, Room 517 19 West 4th street
         Microeconomic Theory Workshop
         Andrea Prat (Columbia)
         “Communication and influence”
         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 11
 
12.30-1.30, Room 551, 6 Washington Place
         Cognition and Perception Colloquia
         Sarit Szprio & Stephanie Chen
         (NYU C&P 4th year students)
         Title TBA
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the cognition & perception colloquia:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html
 
        
Weblink of the week

The Race from the Bottom
 
While people strive for first place, they'll also take a gamble to get out and stay out.
Just how far will people go to stay out of last place? Professor Ilyana Kuziemko, along with Ryan Buell and Michael Norton of Harvard and Taly Reich of Stanford, explored this question through a series of laboratory experiments.
 
Listen to Ilyana Kuziekmo discuss this research in this Columbia Ideas at Work podcast: 
http://soundcloud.com/ideasatwork/ilyana-kuziemko
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