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October 2016
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets
Levon Barseghyan,
Professor of Economics,
Cornell University,
Friday, October 7th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Logrolling for Private Interest: British MPs during the Railway Mania of 1845
Gabriel Mesevage,
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Monday, October 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Marquez, UC Davis
Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance,
Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Davis,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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Job Market Talk: Welmar E. Rosado
Political Credit Rating Cycles: Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections in Mexico
Welmar Rosado Buenfil,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How is an Olinguito like a Gothic church?
Aleta Quinn,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
Friday, October 14th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Haifeng Xu, USC
Persuasion Through the Computational Lens
Haifeng Xu, Graduate Student,
Economics & Computation,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Timberland Economy in Southeastern Guizhou: Co-ownership, Securitization, and Risk-Sharing
Meng Zhang,
Ph.D. Candidate,
History Department,
UCLA,
Monday, October 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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Job Market Talk: Benjamin Bushong
Misattribution of Reference Dependence: Evidence from Real-Effort Experiments
Benjamin Bushong,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Variables
Benjamin Jantzen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Virginia Tech,
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
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Literary Dimensions Seminar Series
‘The advancement and the perversion of mind at this particular time': The Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society, James Montgomery, and the Fate of Improvement
Jonathan Mee,
Professor of English,
University of York,
Friday, October 21st, 2016
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Social Science History Seminar
The Rise of Europe and Atlantic Trade
Daudin Guillaume,
Professor of Economics,
Université Paris-Dauphine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
Lars Brink,
Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Centralization versus separation of regulatory institutions
Dana Foarta,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?
David Wallace,
Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Diffusion Processes
Matthew O. Jackson,
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 28th, 2016
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
The Duality Gap for Two-Team Zero-Sum Games
Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
Monday, October 31st, 2016
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Appreciation Problems of Neuroeconomics
Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus; Universität Zürich, Department of Economics, Lecturer,