Just to let you know things are busy around here . . .

Contents:
Featured Research from ASC Fellows
Seminars Coming Soon
News

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Featured Research from ASC Fellows:

– Pablo Pinto (Political Science) writes that he’s working on a project titled The Politics of Investment, with Santiago M. Pinto:
“In this project we try to establish whether foreign direct investment (FDI) reacts to changing political conditions in host countries. More specifically, we explore the existence of partisan cycles in FDI investment performance, which should be reflected in different patterns of investment at the industrial level. While there has been extensive work on the effects of policy decisions (trade and tax policy in particular) on aggregate FDI flows (Feldstein, Hines, & Hubbard 1995; Hines 2001), we find that that the link between partisanship and investment performance has not been duly explored in the literature. The first paper of this series, The Politics of Investment: Partisanship and the Sectoral Allocation of FDI, was published in the June 2008 issue of Economics & Politics. We are currently working on several extensions: Partisanship, Imperfect Capital Mobility and the Sectoral Allocation of FDI; Partisan Governments, Wages and Employment.”

– Want your work to be the Featured Research in next month’s newsletter? Let us know! Send an email to [email protected]

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Seminars Coming Soon:

Quantitative Political Science seminar
– Date: October 2, 2008
– Speaker: Robert Erikson, Kelly Rader and Pablo Pinto, Columbia Political Science
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 16, 2008
– Speaker: Amy Lerman, Princeton Politics
– Topic: TBA

– For more information, see http://applied.stat.columbia.edu/quantpoliscisem.php

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences seminar
– Date: October 1, 2008
– Speaker: Jennifer Booher-Jennings, Columbia
– Topic: Beyond High Stakes Tests: Teacher Effects on Other Educational Outcomes

– Date: October 15, 2008
– Speaker: Margot Jackson, Princeton
– Topic: TBA

– For more information, see http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/calendar/

Statistics Seminar
– Date: October 6, 2008
– Speaker: Dr. Adam A. Szpiro, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 13, 2008
– Speaker: Dr. Ingemar Nåsell, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
– Topic: On Persistence of Endemic Infections

– Date: October 20, 2008
– Speaker: Dr. Hernando Ombao, Brown University
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 27, 2008
– Speaker: Dr. David Brillinger, Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley
– Topic: TBA

– For more information, see http://www.stat.columbia.edu/pop-up-pages/seminars_semester_schedule.html

Applied Mathematics Colloquium
– Date: October 7, 2008
– Speaker: Jason Fleischer, Princeton University
– Topic: Towards Optical Hydrodynamics

– Date: October 14, 2008
– Speaker: Sorin Tanase-Nicola, University of Michigan
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 16, 2008
– Speaker: Misha Chertkov, LANL
– Topic: Belief Propagation and Beyond

– Date: October 21, 2008
– Speaker: Paul Francois, Rockefeller University
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 28, 2008
– Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Keck Center, UCSF
– Topic: TBA
– For more information, see http://www.apam.columbia.edu/pages/news/Seminars/applied_mathematics_colloquium.html

Applied Microeconomics seminar
– Date: October 1, 2008
– Speaker: Joshua Goodman
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 8, 2008
– Speaker: Erzo Luttmer
– Topic: What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

– Date: October 15, 2008
– Speaker: Rajeev Cherukupalli
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 22, 2008
– Speaker: Tumer Kaplan
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 29, 2008
– Speaker: Amitabh Chandra
– Topic: TBA
– For more information, see http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro

Econometrics workshop
– Date: October 9, 2008
– Speaker: Arthur Lewbel, Boston College
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 16, 2008
– Speaker: Peter Reinhardt Hansen, Stanford
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 23, 2008
– Speaker: Eric Ghysels, North Carolina
– Topic: TBA

– For more information, see http://www.columbia.edu/~dk2313/Workshop.htm

Econometrics colloquium
– Date: October 1, 2008
– Speaker: Dennis Kristensen, Columbia
– Topic: Testing Conditional Factor Models

– Date: October 8, 2008
– Speaker: Richard Davis, Columbia
– Topic: Structural Break Estimation in Time Series: Theory and Practice

– Date: October 15, 2008
– Speaker: Pierre Andre Chiappori, Columbia
– Topic: TBA

– Date: October 22, 2008
– Speaker: Yinghua He, Columbia
– Topic: Estimating School Choice Problem under Boston Mechanism as a Bayesian Game

– For more information, see http://www.columbia.edu/~dk2313/Lunch-Seminar.htm