Niranjana Prasad, CORE will give a presentation on Institutional trust and women's healthcare utilization: Evidence from India Abstract: Despite the reduction in global maternal mortality rates, there persists a significant proportion of women who continue to not access institutional care.

Bhaskar Dutta will give a presentation on Attack and Interception in Networks Abstract: This paper studies a game of attack and interception in a network, where a single attacker chooses a target and a path, and each node chooses a level of protection. We show that the Nash equilibrium of the game exists and is unique.

Professor Juan José Salazar will be visiting CORE during the week of November 14-18 and will be giving a talk entitled Mathematical Formulations for Consistent Travelling Salesman Problems Abstract: The consistent travelling salesman problem looks for a minimum-cost set of Hamiltonian routes, one for every day of a given time period.

UAntwerpen, UCLouvain, UGent, ULB, ULiège, UNamur and VUB). by Jean-Baptiste Michau (Ecole Polytechnique, France) on The Trilemma for Low Interest Rate Macroeconomics Abstract Three desirable goals of macroeconomic policy are: full employment, low inflation, and a low debt level with no Ponzi scheme.

Keiti KONDI (IRES) will give a presentation on Integration Vs Cultural Persistence: Fertility and Working Time among Second Generation Migrants in France Abstract We study how cultural norms in the origin country, measured at different times, affect fertility and labor force participation of second-generation migrant women in France.

  Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi University)   Pricing for the Stars Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Rating Systems   Maintaining good ratings increases the profits of sellers on online platforms. We analyze the role of strategic pricing for ratings management in a setting where a monopolist sells a good of unknown quality.

Simon Schulten (DICE) will present an empirical work on the interplay between consumer mistakes and firm's behavior in online auctions, entitled "Managing Bidder Learning in Retail Auctions". Abstract ------------------------------------------------------------------- When firms exploit behavioral biases, it is natural to think that, eventually, consumers will learn to avoid their mistakes, w

Author: Rodolphe Vanderveken Title : On the optimal combination of naive and mean-variance portfolio strategies Abstract : In an influential paper, Tu and Zhou (2011, RFS) reaffirm the added value of mean-variance portfolio theory by proposing a methodology to combine the sample mean-variance portfolio with the naive equally weighted portfolio.

The next session of the CORE Brown Bag is scheduled for Wednesday, October 19th at 12:50. Amma Panin (CORE) will present her latest research project, entitled "Religious Organizations as Competing Platforms". We will provide the abstract of the work next week. This session will take place, as usual, in room c.035 at CORE.

  Brett Hollenbeck (UCLA Anderson School of Management) Detecting fake review buyers using network structure: Direct evidence from Amazon