Tuesday, November 2018
(CANCELLED) Financial Regulation in Japan, the U.S., and Europe
Financial Regulation in Japan, the U.S., and Europe Tuesday, November 13, 2018 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. (Reception to follow) Room 142, Uris Hall, Columbia Business School Featuring: Tomoko Amaya Deputy Secretary-General, Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC), Japan Richard Berner Former Director, Office of Financial Research (OFR) Tano Santos David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance Finance Division, Columbia Business School Moderator José Alexandre Scheinkman Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics Columbia University Welcome…
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Columbia Political Economy Conference
Faculty Organizers: Suresh Naidu & Carlo Prato If you would like to attend this conference, press here to register by December 1, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Cohen at sc3867@columbia.edu. Program Friday, December 14, 2018 8:45-9:25 Light Breakfast 9:25-9:30 Introductions 9:30-10:35 German Gieczewski (Princeton), "Endogenous Experimentation in Organizations" (with Svetlana Kosterina) Discussion by Navin Kartik (Columbia) 10:35-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:55 Nancy Qian (Northwestern), "The Fluidity of Race: "Passing" in the United States, 1890-1940"" (with Nathan Nunn and…
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Molly Crockett
Moral Decision-Making: Conscience, Context, and Conformity Classical models of antisocial behavior propose that violence arises out of a failure of lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) to “put the brakes” on aggressive impulses originating in subcortical regions such as the amygdala and striatum. A new, alternative model proposes that LPFC does not directly inhibit aggressive impulses, but instead flexibly modulates the value of aggressive acts via corticostriatal circuits. I will present behavioral, pharmacological and neuroimaging experiments supporting the alternative model. The findings…
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