Thursday, November 2017
Climate Finance Workshop
CLIMATE FINANCE WORKSHOP November 30, 2017 - 8:00am - 5:30pm LOCATION: Presidential Ballroom, Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive New York, NY 10027 United States See map: Google Maps Register here Climate Finance Workshop Thursday, November 30, 2017 Sponsors: Norges Bank Investment Management, Program for Economic Research, Review of Financial Studies Conference Organizers: Harrison Hong (Columbia University), José Scheinkman (Columbia University), Andrew Karolyi (Cornell University and Sponsoring Editor, Review of Financial Studies) If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Cohen at sc3867@columbia.edu PRESS RELEASE Finalists Selected for the…
Find out more »Monday, December 2017
A Special Symposium in Memory of Kenneth J. Arrow
We proudly invite you to attend a Special Symposium in Memory of Kenneth J. Arrow. Kenneth J. Arrow’s work was formative in shaping the field of economics over the past sixty years and his ideas, style of research, and breadth of vision were a model for generations of the boldest and most creative economists. Among the list of 24 distinguished scholars include: Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor and Nobel Laureate (Columbia University); Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor and Nobel Laureate…
Find out more »10th Annual Arrow Lecture – Persistent Racial Inequality in the U.S.: An Economic Theorist’s Account
You are cordially invited to attend the "10th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture – Persistent Racial Inequality in the U.S.: An Economic Theorist's Account" delivered by Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Professor Loury previously taught at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT, 1976). Full bio. Open to Columbia University affiliates.…
Find out more »Joe Kable – “Fractioning the Prospective Brain” [Joint with SCCN Seminar]
Though neuroscientists have developed an exquisitely detailed understanding of the role of different brain regions in perceiving the external world, our understanding of the relevant functional modules that enable brains to plan based on internal models of the world is much more impoverished. Here Dr. Kable will argue for a broad division within the brain’s “default mode” between networks critical for the generation of internal simulations and mental models and networks involved in evaluating the outputs and results of such…
Find out more »Friday, January 2018
2018 Political Economy Conference
8:45-9:25 Registration 9:25-9:30 Introductions 9:30-10:35 Ray Fisman (Boston), "Tax-Exempt Lobbying" (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi) Discussion by Hye Young You (NYU) 10:35-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:55 Pierre Yared (Columbia), "Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Self-Enforcement" (with Marina Halac) Discussion by Dana Foarta (Stanford) 11:55-1:00 Vincent Pons (Harvard), "Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates" (with Clémence Tricaud) Discussion by Marc Meredith (Penn) 1:00-2:15 Lunch 2:15-3:20 Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (Penn), "Women, Rails, and Telegraphs:…
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