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PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should send their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Educator’s Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.
If you take a light gloss over the literature, you would think that people are overly attracted to the lump sum, that is, they discount the future too much. One recent paper, however, finds that the appeal of the annuity has much to do with the amount. Small annuity payments are quite unattractive, but large annuity payments become surprisingly attractive.
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.
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FUR: Foundations of Utility and Risk conference, June 30-July 2, 2014, Rotterdam. Deadline: March 15.
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We are pleased to announce that registration are now open for Advances in Decision Analysis, the first stand-alone conference organized by the Decision Analysis Society. The conference will be held June 16-18, 2014, hosted by the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
