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Newsletter 81: Sep 23, 2013

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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, September 23
 
12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Department Cognitive Lunch)
         Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:
https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/cognitive_lunch
 
12.00-1.30, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Jan von der Goltz
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Colloquium:
http://econ.columbia.edu/seminar-schedule
 
2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic theory seminar)
        Antonio Penta
        “Strategic Thinking and the Incentives to Reason” (with Larbi Alaoui)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
Tuesday, September 24
 
9.00-10.00, IAB 707 (Political Economy Breakfast)
         Jan Zapal (IAE-CSIC and GERGE)
         “Crafting Consensus”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Political Economy Breakfast:
http://political-economy-breakfast.wikischolars.columbia.edu/

2.15-3.45, 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar)
         Paul Scott (Toulouse)
         “Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation of Agricultural Land Use”
          iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the IO, Organization and Strategy Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/industorg
 
4.15-5.45, 1101 IAB (Money Macro Seminar)
         Elias Papioannou
         “Public Spending and Economic Activity: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities” (with Raphael Corbi and Paolo Surico)
          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, September 25
 
12.00-1.00, 1102 IAB (Industrial Organization Colloquium)
         Joe Hogan (IO)
         "Dynamic Models of Cash-Out Refinancing"
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Industrial Organization Colloquium:
http://jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu/colloquia/industorg/
 
12.00-1.00, 509 Knox (Sociology Colloquium Series)
         Tomas Jimenez (Stanford)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Sociology Colloquium Series:
http://sociology.columbia.edu/colloquium-series-new-pathways-social-sciences

2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Peter Neary (PER Visitor)
         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)
         Hyelim Son
         “Do parents believe in sheepskin effects? Indirect evidence from Indonesia”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro
 
Thursday, September 26
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 333 (Finance Seminar)
         Arvind Krishnamurthy
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For more information on the Finance seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, September 23

4.30-5.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Jesse Gregory (U of Wisconsin)
         “The Impact of Post-Katrina Rebuilding Grants on the Resettlement Choices of New Orleans Homeowners”
         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, September 25
 
4.00-5.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Ariel Rubinstein (TAU and NYU)
         “Strategic Tournaments” (with Ayala Arad)
         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, September 26
 
12.30-1.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Margaret McConnell (Harvard)
         “Framing, Noisy Learning and Adoption of Prevention in the Lab” (with Guenther Fink)
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For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics Seminar:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2013/
 
 
Web Link of the Week:
Candace Pert, 67, Explorer of the Brain, Dies

Why Do We Tip? 

An economist argues that restaurant patrons and waiters would be better off if restaurants adopted no-tipping policies.
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