Friday, December 2019
The Seventh Columbia University Conference in Political Economy
Venue & Dates: The Seventh Columbia University Conference in Political Economy will be held at the East Gallery of the Maison Française, Columbia University (get directions) on Friday, December 13th. Faculty Organizers: Alessandra Casella & John Marshall, Columbia University Speakers & Schedule: 9:25AM Welcome and Introductions 9:30AM “Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements” David Yang (Harvard), with Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago), Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Noam Yuchtman (UC Berkeley), and Y. Jane Zhang (The Hong Kong University…
Find out more »Wednesday, January 2020
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
This Event Has Been Cancelled Please email econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. What can we learn from the world's most unusual risk takers? About this Event What can paparazzi, extreme surfers, professional poker players, and sex workers teach us about risk? Join the Richman Center in a book talk with Allison Schrager to explore this and other questions about risk. Allison Schrager is an economist, award-winning journalist, and author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk. Allison,…
Find out more »Columbia Alumni Reception at the AEA Conference
Balboa Room, Level 3, South Tower Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 333 West Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 Please join alumni, students, and faculty for a reception. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. Contact econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. We hope to see you there!
Find out more »Tuesday, February 2020
Memory and Representativeness – Andrei Shleifer
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, Santa Clara 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, Santa Clara University Artificial intelligence (AI) has many impressive applications, including playing chess and Go, self-driving cars, computer vision, and speech…
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