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Newsletter 85: Oct 21, 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, October 21
 
12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Department Cognitive Lunch)
         Chris Crew (Columbia)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:
https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/cognitive_lunch
 
12.00-1.00, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Katherine Meckel (Columbia)
         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)
         Leeat Yariv (PER Visitor)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
Tuesday, October 22
 
9.00-10.00, IAB 707 (Political Economy Breakfast)
         Egor Lazarev (Columbia)
         “Ethnic Identity and Economic Behavior: How Does Minority Status Affect Investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina?” (with Vera Mironova)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Political Economy Breakfast:
http://political-economy-breakfast.wikischolars.columbia.edu/

12.30-2.00, Warren 207 (Money Macro Seminar)
         Nicolas Crouzet (Columbia)
         “Corporate Debt Structure and the Macroeconomy”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Money macro seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
1.00-2.00, 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Elyes Jouini (Univ. Paris-Dauphine)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Colloquium:
http://jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu/colloquia/micro/
 
2.15-3.45, 1101 IAB (Industrial Organization and Strategy Seminar)
         Eric Van den Steen (Harvard)
         “A Theory of Explicit Strategy”
         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)
         Thuy Lan Nguyen (Columbia)
         “News Shocks and Business Cycles: Evidence from Forecast Data”
          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, October 23
 
12.00-1.00, 1102 IAB (Industrial Organization Colloquium)
         Lina Lu
         “Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Constrained Factor Models”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Industrial Organization Colloquium:
http://jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu/colloquia/industorg/
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Jonathan Dingel
         “The Determinants of Quality Specialization”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the International Economics Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon


4.10-5.10, 614 Schermerhorn (Psychology Colloquium)
         Ursula Staudinger (Columbia)
         “The Plasticity of Aging: Psychological Perspectives”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Psychology Colloquium:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/lists/colloquia.html
 
4.15-5.45, 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar)
         Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics)
         “Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010”(with Thomas Piketty)
         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, October 24
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 333 (Finance Seminar)
         Malcolm Baker (Harvard)
         “Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly” (with Jeffrey Wurgler)
         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, October 21


4.30-5.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Elena Pastorino (University of Minnesota)
         “Careers in Firms: Estimating a Model of Job Assignment, Learning, and Human Capital Acquisition”
         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, October 22
 
6.15-7.30, Meyer Room 815 (Special Topics Course)
         Ernst Fehr
         “The endogenous emergence of institutions that sustain cooperation”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Special Topics Courses taught by Ernst Fehr:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_ernst_fehr_classes_Fall2013.html
 
Wednesday, October 23
 
4.00-5.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Jack Fanning (NYU)
         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
 
 
Web Link of the Week:
 
The Science of Yoga:
Examining the changes yoga produces in the body and brain
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