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PER Distinguished Lecture: Vincent P. Crawford, “Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading”

Friday, April 20, 2018 10:30am-12:00pm Deutsches Haus, Columbia University Press here to RSVP for planning purposes. I revisit Roger Myerson and Mark Satterthwaite’s (1983; “MS”) analysis of mechanism design for bilateral trading, replacing equilibrium with a...

Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change

PER Distinguished Lecture: Lars Peter Hansen, “Pricing Uncertainty Induced by Climate Change” Friday, April 13, 2018 11:00am-12:30pm 1512 International Affairs Building Climate science documents uncertainty induced by alternative emission scenarios and...

Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission

This year marks the 50th year anniversary of the publication of the Kerner Report, a landmark document famous for declaring “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal.” The 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Report presents an...

Nobel Perspectives Live

Who is Attending? The event is FREE by invitation only for 1,000+ university students from the area who registered after receiving an invitation from their universities. What will they talk about? The Nobel Laureates will answer the questions the students have. They...

Prof Gelman

I’m speaking for the statistics undergraduates tomorrow (Fri 17 Nov) 10am in room 312 Mathematics Bldg. I’m not quite sure what I’ll talk about: maybe I’ll do again my talk on statistics and sports, maybe I’ll speak on the statistical crisis in science. Anyone can...