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October 2014
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth (with Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni)
Roland J. Benabou,
Theodore A. Wells' 29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar
Voter Turnout and Communication: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Kirill B. Pogorelskiy,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, October 6th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
DARUM: Deferred Acceptance with Random Utility Models
Alfred Galichon,
Professor of Economics,
Sciences Po,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Filipe R. Campante,
Associate Professor of Public Policy,
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Sequential Equilibrium Distributions in Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Types and Actions
Philip J. Reny,
William C. Norby Professor in Economics and the College,
Department of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley
Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Peter Carr,
Global Head of Market Modeling,
Morgan Stanley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries?
Andrew Hall,
Graduate Student,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
Friday, October 10th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Georgios Piliouras,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
Monday, October 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Crime and Electoral Punishment
Dorothy Kronick,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Political Science,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Big Bang Scenarios Before the Discovery of the Red Shift: Alexander Friedman and the Foundations of Relativistic Cosmology
Alexei Kojevnikov,
Department of History,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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On the Geography of Assets and Citizens: How Proximity to Oil Production Shapes Political Order
Graeme Blair,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Politics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Random Choice and Private Information
Jay Lu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Did the Humanists Define Antiquity? Historical Periodization and the Origins of Classical Scholarship
Frederic Clark,
Postdoctoral Instructor,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, October 20th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar - Job Market Talk
The Franchise, Taxes, and Public Goods: The Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment in Nineteenth Century England
Jonathan N. Chapman,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Political Competition in Legislative Elections
Mattias Polborn,
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois,
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Government Interventions in a Dynamic Market with Adverse Selection (with Andy Skrzypacz)
William Fuchs,
Assistant Professor,
Berkeley-Haas Finance Group, Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley,
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Price Discovery Through Options
Semyon Malamud,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute (SFI),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Is Time Hollow, or Just the Earth? The Strange Case of James Ross Island
Gillen Wood,
Professor of English and Director of the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 24th, 2014
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Implementing Probabilistic Graphical Models with Chemical Reaction Networks
Ryan P. Adams,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms
Paulo Somaini,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Methods to Alleviate Unit Non-Response Bias in Surveys
Erin Hartman,
Co-Founder, BlueLabs,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contracts with Framing
Yuval Salant,
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Graduate Student Job Market Seminar
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Charitable Giving: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Matthew Chao,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Towards a Computational Framework for How We Represent Other People
Damian A. Stanley,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics,
HSS,
Caltech,
Friday, October 31st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Incentivizing Exploration [joint work with Peter Frazier, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg]
David Kempe,
Associate Professor,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Computations Central to Learning What to do in an Uncertain World
Erie Boorman,
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of Oxford,