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Newsletter 89: Nov 18, 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, November 18
 
12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Department Cognitive Lunch)
         Frances Champagne (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)
         Meiping Sun (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)
         Gabriel Carrol (Stanford)
         “Robustness and Linear Contracts”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
Tuesday, November 19
 
9.00-10.00, IAB 707 (Political Economy Breakfast)
         Jessica Van Parys (Columbia)
         “Group Identity and Information Cascades”
         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 332 (Management Seminar)
         Tom Gilovich (Cornell)
         “We’ll Always Have Paris: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases”
         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)
         Elliott Ash (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)
         Matt Shum (Cal Tech)
         “Inside Intel: Sales Forecasting Using a New Form of Information Aggregation Mechanism” (with Ben Gillen and Charlie Plott)
         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)
         Jesus Fernandes-Villaverde (UPenn)
         “Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity” (with Pablo Guerron-Quintana, Keith Kuester, and Juan Rubio-Ramirez)
          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, November 20
 
12.00-1.00, 1102 IAB (Industrial Organization Colloquium)
         Zach Brown (Columbia)
         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)
         Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)
         “Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It’s in the Measure” (with Alvaro Garcia)
         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)
         Peter Kuhn (UCSB)
         “Age and Gender-Based Screening in Employee Recruitment: Evidence from Four Job Boards”
         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, November 21
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 333 (Finance Seminar)
         Peter DeMarzo
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For more information on the Finance seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
4.00-5.00, The Faculty House (Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar)
         Michael H. Goldstein (Cornell)
         “Emergence of Complex Communication from Simple Interactions: Lessons from Songbirds and Human Infants”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Seminar:
http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/cognitive-and-behavioral-neuroscience/
 

Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, November 18

4.30-5.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Jesse Shapiro (UChicago)
         “Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Sample Statistics” (with Matthew Gentzkow)
         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, November 19
 
12.30-2.00, 6 Washington Place Room 551 (Social Psych Brown Bags)
         Dolores Albarracin (UPenn)
         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)
         Mauricio Delgado (Rutgers)
         “The Inherent Value of Exercising Control”
         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, November 20
 
4.00-5.00, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Willemien Kets (Kellogg)
         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, November 21
 
12.30-1.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland)
         “Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior? Evidence from the Lab” (with Emel Filiz-Ozbay, Jonathan Guryan, Kyle Hyndman, and Melissa Kearney)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics Seminar:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2013/
 
 
Web Link of the Week:
 
IBM to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet:
Companies, academics, and individual software developers will be able to use Watson at a small fraction of the previous cost.
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