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October 2012
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Expectations as Reference Points? From Theoretical Appeal to Empirical Problems
Lorenz Goette,
Professor of Business and Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Lausanne,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Maria Petrova,
UBS Assistant Professor of Economics, New Economic School, Moscow,
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Ctr. for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Canonical Model of Choice with Initial Endowments (joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu)
Ahmet Efe Ok,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Predictive Coding in Balanced Spiking Neural Networks
Sophie Deneve,
Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives,
Ecole Normale Superieure,
Friday, October 12th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Monday, October 15th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
How Better Information Can Garble Experts' Advice (joint with Ben Golub and Andrei Kirilenko)
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Gridlock and Delegation in a Changing World
Steve Callander,
Associate Professor of Political Economy,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Yeon-Koo Che,
Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory,
Columbia University,
Friday, October 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Fractional Matching Markets
Vikram Manjunath,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Universite de Montreal,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Galen in the Seventeenth Century
Gideon Manning,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring
Takuo Sugaya,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Forging together Cognitive and Decision Science Principles to Build Decision Field Theory
Jerome R. Busemeyer,
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program,
Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program,
Friday, October 26th, 2012
9:30am
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12:30pm
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From Stage to Screen: Filming Shakespeare's Plays
John Wyver,
Writer and Producer / Senior Research Fellow,
University of Westminster,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Projects and Team Dynamics
George Georgiadis,
Graduate Student,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Monday, October 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Sailing the Waters Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy
Dustin Tingley,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Information Aggregation in the Field: an Application to Sales Forecasting
Benjamin J. Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bayesian inference and Non-Bayesian Prediction and Choice: Foundations and An Application to Entry Games with Multiple Equilibria
Larry G. Epstein,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,