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On Friday, February 13th, ISET hosted Dr. Jan Fidrmuc from Brunel University, who presented a paper he co-authored with Juan De Dios Tena titled “Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck”.
The speaker began his presentation by providing examples of superstitious beliefs in different countries and pointed out superstitions related to the number 13 and Friday the 13th—The authors of the paper wanted to check empirically how can be bad luck associated to superstitious beliefs. To do so, the authors compared people born on the 13th day of a month or on Black Fridays. Due to superstitious beliefs, people are often extra careful and empirically it is not possible to check the effect of an event that is believed to be unlucky.
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ISET continued its Distinguished Professors Lecture Series, which it runs in cooperation with Tbilisi State University, on Thursday, January 29th. In this installment of the series, ISET hosted Professor Ramaz Kurdadze, Head of the Institute of the Georgian Language at Faculty of Humanities and Member of the Academic Board of Tbilisi State University. Prof. Kurdadze delivered a lecture and presentation titled, “The Kartvelian Languages and the Georgian Literary Language through the Centuries”.
Although a slightly unusual subject for a school of economics, ISET’s faculty and students, as well as the event’s other participants thoroughly enjoyed Prof. Kurdadze’s lecture.
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