Tuesday, February 2020
Memory and Representativeness
The Cognition and Decision Seminar Series presents Memory and Representativeness Andrei Shleifer Harvard University We explore the idea that judgment by representativeness reflects the workings of episodic memory, especially interference. In a new laboratory experiment on cued recall, participants are shown two groups of images with different distributions of colors. We find that i) decreasing the frequency of a given color in one group significantly increases the recalled frequency of that color in the other group, ii) for a…
Find out more »PER Mini Course – Serguei Maliar, Associate Professor in Economics, Stanford University
Artificial intelligence and deep learning solution methods for dynamic economic models Venue: This Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Spring Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 1:00-3:00pm (Uris 332) (get directions) Part II: Thursday, February 27, 2020, 12:00-2:00pm (Uris 301) (get directions) *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: Serguei Maliar, Associate Professor in Economics, Stanford University Artificial intelligence (AI) has many impressive applications, including playing chess and Go, self-driving cars, computer vision, and speech recognition.…
Find out more »Thursday, March 2020
PER Mini Course – Sanjeev Goyal, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
The Network Economy Venue: This Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Spring Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 2:15PM-4:15PM (East Gallery, Columbia Maison Française) (get directions) Part II: Friday, March 13, 2020, 10:00AM-12::00PM (East Gallery, Columbia Maison Française) (get directions) *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: Sanjeev Goyal, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge Our life takes place at the intersection of the global and the local: we function in a world…
Find out more »Thursday, April 2020
PER Mini Course – Jesús Fernández Villaverde, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Machine Learning for Macroeconomists Venue: This Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Spring Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Thursday, April 2, 2020, 3:30-5:30pm (Uris 140) (get directions) Part II: Friday, April 3, 2020, 3:30-5:30pm (Uris 331) (get directions) *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: Jesús Fernández Villaverde, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. Machine learning tools offer many intriguing possibilities for macroeconomists (and economists in general). First, we can use machine learning tools such as deep learning…
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