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Newsletter 86: Oct 28, 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 28
 
12.00-1.00, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Michael Mueller-Smith (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)
         Konrad Mierendorff (University of Zurich)
         “Auctions with Limited Contentment”
         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 29
 
9.00-10.00, IAB 707 (Political Economy Breakfast)
         Mounir Karadja (IIES Stockholm University)
         “Does the Demand for Redistribution Rise or Fall with Cognitive Ability”
         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, Uris 326 (Money Macro Seminar)
         Miguel Morin (Columbia)
         “Computers, Electricity, and the Labor Market”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Money macro seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
12.30-2.00, Uris 332 (Management Seminar)
         Casey Ichniowski, David Ross, and Jose Uribe (Columbia)
         “Why Are There So Few Women Top Managers?”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Management seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars
 
1.00-2.00, 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Chris Hansman (Columbia)
         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)
         Rafaella Sadun (Harvard)
         “Management as a Technology” (with Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen)
         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)
         Wataru Miyamoto (Columbia)
         “Understanding the Cross-Country Effects of US Technology Shocks”
          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 30
 
12.00-1.00, 1102 IAB (Industrial Organization Colloquium)
         Kerem Tuzcuoglu (Columbia)
         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)
         Ann Morning (NYU)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Sociology Colloquium:
http://sociology.columbia.edu/colloquium-series-new-pathways-social-sciences
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Treb Allen (PER visitor)
         “Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy”
         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)
         Rich Gonzalez (University of Michigan)
         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)
         Hunt Allcott (NYU)
         “Is Replication Enough? Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation”
         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 31
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 333 (Finance Seminar)
         Francis Longstaff (UCLA Anderson)
         “Deflation Risk” (with Matthias Fleckenstein and Hanno Lustig)
         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 28

4.30-5.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)
         “The Organization of the Labor Market with Communication and Cognitive Skills” (with Robert McCann, Xianwen Shi, and Ronald Wolthoff)
         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 29
 
12.30-2.00, 6 Washington Place Room 551 (Social Psych Brown Bags)
         Brice Kuhl (NYU)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Social Psychology Brown Bags:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html
 
2.30-4.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Neuroeconomics Seminar)
         Roshan Cools (Radboud University Nijmegen)
         “Affective and Decision Functions of Serotonin”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Neuroeconomics Seminar:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_neuroeconomics_seminar.html
 
Wednesday, October 30
 
4.00-5.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton)
         “Capital Controls: Growth vs. Stability” (with Yuliy Sannikov)
         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, October 31
 
12.30-1.30, 6 Washington Place, Rm 551 (Cognition and Perception Colloquia)
         Elizabeth Torres (Rutgers)
         “Towards a New Objective Psychological Science: A Unifying Framework to Study the Brain and Body Interactions in Natural Settings”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Cognition and Perception Colloquia:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html
 
12.30-1.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Isabel Trevino (NYU)
         “Channels of Financial Contagion: Theory and Experiments”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics Seminar:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2013/
 
Friday, November 1
 
3.00-4.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 736 (Applied Microeconomic Workshop)
         Matt Shum (CalTech)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomic Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.applied
 
 
 
Web Link of the Week:
 
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