Tuesday, December 2017
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:…
Find out more »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: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion, Social Learning, and Collective Action" (with Angel Iglesias and Pinar Yildirim) Discussion…
Find out more »Friday, February 2018
The Trump Administration’s Asia Policy
Japan as a Leading Power: Trade and the FinTech Revolution
Find out more »1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
Mail Code 3308
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027