Monday, October 2018
A Special Evening Lecture with William H. Janeway
It is my pleasure to invite you to join me for A Special Evening Lecture on Monday, October 1, 2018. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. William H. Janeway, author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State. The title of the talk is, “The Digital Revolution and the State: The Great Reversal.” Among his many accomplishments, Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems and O’Reilly Media. He is chairman of…
Find out more »13th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
13th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association At Columbia University October 12-13, 2018 New York City, NY Conference Program Registration, Venue and Accommodation Call for Papers Submission Keynote Lectures Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University): "The effects of immigration on the economy over the 20th century: Lessons from the closing and re-opening of the border" Raj Chetty (Harvard University): "The Opportunity Atlas: Neighborhoods and Economic Opportunity in America" Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University): "The Geography of Joblessness in the US" Local Organizer: Donald Davis (Columbia University). Program Committee: Laurent Gobillon (PSE, Chair),…
Find out more »Thursday, November 2018
The 11th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture | Market Design in Large Worlds: The Example of Kidney Exchange
Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and so potential marketplace participants may have large strategy sets, that include actions taken outside of the marketplace. And markets require social support, so the behavior of people who do not intend to participate in the market may nevertheless be important for market design. This lecture will illustrate these points with some examples, drawing most heavily on the experience of kidney exchange. Participants Lecture by Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Economic…
Find out more »Econometrics for Empirical Climate Modeling
Columbia University’s Earth Institute invites you to join a lecture at the intersection of climate science and economics by Sir David Hendry of Oxford University. Sir Hendry is co-Director of Climate Econometrics at Nuffield College, Oxford, a research program concentrated on developing econometric methods to augment climate-economic research. Professor Hendry’s talk will draw on findings from the program, developing and applying novel empirical approaches to understanding climate change and its impacts throughout history and into the future. Professor Hendry will…
Find out more »Econometrics for Empirical Climate Modeling
Columbia University’s Earth Institute invites you to join a lecture at the intersection of climate science and economics by Sir David Hendry of Oxford University. Sir Hendry is co-Director of Climate Econometrics at Nuffield College, Oxford, a research program concentrated on developing econometric methods to augment climate-economic research. Professor Hendry’s talk will draw on findings from the program, developing and applying novel empirical approaches to understanding climate change and its impacts throughout history and into the future. Professor Hendry will…
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