"Principles and Priorities" Federal Budget Exercise is an interactive exercise in which participants learn how interesting and challenging it can be to assemble a federal budget.

Please join us for a presentation by Justin Kirkland entitled "Focus on Sona Systems for Participant Recruitment and Study Management."

Join us to hear from Yu Awaya, University of Rochester, presenting, "Spreading Information via Social Networks: An Irrelevance Result." Abstract: An informed planner wishes to spread information among a group of agents in order to induce efficient coordination—say the adoption of a new technology with positive externalities. The agents are connected via a social network. The planner informs a seed and then the information spreads via the network. While the structure of the network affects the rate of diffusion, we show that the rate of adoption is the same for all acyclic networks.

Mehrdad Moharrami will present “A Policy Gradient Algorithm for the Risk-Sensitive Exponential Cost MDP."

Join us to hear from Josh Lerner, Harvard University. His presentation is titled, "What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?" Abstract: In recent years, impact investors—private investors who seek to generate simultaneously financial and social returns—have attracted intense interest and controversy. We analyze a novel, comprehensive data set of impact and traditional investors to assess how the non-financial characteristics of impact portfolios differ from their traditional counterparts.