Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia Monday, Apr 22 2.30-4.00, IAB (Economic Theory Workshop)
Tayfun Sonmez
The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities Vs. Precedence in School Choice (with Umut Dur, Scott Duke Kominers and Parag Pathak)
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 23 12.30-1.30, 332 Uris
Management Division Seminar
Belen Villalonga (NYU)
"Family control and corporate divestitures"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars 12.30-1.30, 326 Uris
Marketing Faculty Seminar
Tulin Erdem (NYU)
"
Consumer Learning and Evolution of Consumer Brand Preferences"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on Marketing Faculty Seminar:
https://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty/seminars 4.15-5.45, 1101 IAB
Money Macro Seminar
Martin Eichenbaum
Unemployment and Business Cycles (with Lawrence Christiano and Mathias Trabandt)
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 24 12.00-1.00, 509 Knox
New Pathways for Social Sciences Seminar Series
Rob Sampson (Harvard)
Title TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the New Pathways for Social Sciences Seminar Series:
http://sociology.columbia.edu/colloquium-series-new-pathways-social-sciences 2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB
International Economics Workshop
Brian Kovak (CMU)
"Price and Quality Dispersion in an Offshoring Market: Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services"(with David M. Byrne and Ryan Michaels)
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 IAB
Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar
Konrad Burchardi
The Economic Impact of Social Ties iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the applied microeconomics seminars:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro Thursday, Apr 25 2.15-3.45, Uris Hall
Finance Seminar
Peter Kondor
TBA
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance 4.00-5.30,
Faculty House University Seminar on Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosience
Steve Fleming (NYU)
Towards a neuroscience of self knowledge:
How do we know that we know? The neural basis of self-knowledge (also known as metacognition) is poorly understood. In particular, it is unknown why some individuals have accurate self-knowledge – their confidence in their abilities tends to be accurate – whereas others have less precise impressions of themselves. In my talk I will describe how the application of methods from psychophysics and decision-making provides new perspectives on metacognition. Dynamic models of decision-making allow us to make detailed predictions of subjective confidence, and compare these predictions against subjects’ behaviour. Drawing on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, I will describe how representations of confidence are integral to the decision process. However, variability in metacognition across individuals also reveals a general constraint in accessing and reporting subjective confidence. Convergent evidence from structural and functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) sheds light on the neural basis for this constraint on self-knowledge.
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the University Seminar on Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience:
http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/cognitive-and-behavioral-neuroscience/ Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU Monday, Apr 22 4.30-5.30, 19 W. 4
th Street, Room 517
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Manuela Angelucci (University of Michigan)
"The effect of stress on choice under uncertainty: mechanisms and gender differences"
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 23 12.30-2.00, Room 771 - NYU Department of Psychology
6 Washington Place New York NY 10003
Social Psych Brown Bags
William Brady, Ruglie Tuskeviciute
"See what you feel: emotion perception in romantic relationships"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Social Psych Brown Bags:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html Wednesday, Apr 23 12.30-2.00, Center for Neural Science, 4 Washington Place, Rm 815.
Decision-Making Joint Lab Meeting Hang Zhang, PhD
"The sampling model of frequency and probability distortion"
iCal (to add this event to your calendar) For more information on the Decision-Making Joint Lab Meeting:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_joint_lab_meeting.html Weblinks of the week Chart of the day: More choice doesn't always lead to a better choice The ins and outs of organ donationIf we automatically put people on the donor register we’d presumably see more transplants