Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday September 10th

2:30pm to 3:45pm - IAB 1101 
Economic Theory - Jonathan Libgober (University of Southern California)
Title Not Available 

Tuesday September 11th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 306
Columbia Macro Lunch Group - Kairong Xiao 
Title Not Available 

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 327 
PhD Seminar - Renxuan Wang 
Insurance companies and bond prices

4:14pm to 5:15pm - IAB 1101 
Money-Macro Workshop - Steven Davis
(University of Chicago)
Title Not Available 

Wednesday September 12th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 326
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only) - Yiming Ma 
Title Not Available 

4pm to 5pm - 614 Schermerhorn
Psychology Department Colloquia - Shigehiro Oishi (Columbia University) 
Uncovering the Causes and Consequences of Well-Being

4:15pm to 5:45pm - IAB 1101
Applied Microeconomics Seminar: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar - Mehdi Maxime Benatiya Andaloussi 
Title Not Available 

Thursday September 13th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 141 
Finance Seminar - Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago)
Asset Pricing with Fading Memory (with Zhengyang Xu)

2:15pm to 3:45pm - TBA
Industrial Organization and Strategy (joint with Econometrics) - Phil Haile
(Yale University)
Title Not Available 

4:15pm to 5:30pm - Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  
Cognition and Decision Seminar Series - Dr. Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
Using Visual Saliency in Game Theory 
*Registration required for attendance* 

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Does technology really enhance our decision-making ability?
New research looks at the ability of recommender systems to improve decision making.  Recommender systems are artificially intelligent algorithms that use big data to suggest additional products to consumers based off of things such as past purchases, demographic information or search history, for example.  The new paper indicates that user experience and choice satisfaction can be conflated when good design creates positive feelings about an experience, which makes a participant think a good decision has been made, creating false positive situations.