Archives for CORE
November 21, 2019
UCLouvain Seminar
UCLouvain Seminar : Phlippe Mongin
Rawls's Difference Principle and maximin rule of allocation: a new analysis
Philippe Mongin, HEC
Abstract : If Rawls's A Theory of Justice has achieved fame among economists, this is largely due to his Di erence Principle, which says that inequalities of resources should be to the benefit...
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November 20, 2019
Brown Bag Seminar
Brown Bag Seminar: Aleksandar Todorovic
"What leads people tolerate negative interest rates on savings?"
Using an online experiment, we examine to what extent people are ready to bear negative interest rates (NIR hereafter) on their savings. We find some tolerance to NIR, which strongly depends on the amount of savings, time...
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November 15, 2019
Econometrics Seminar
Econometrics Seminar : Andreas Alfons
Joint CORE/ISBA seminar
A projection pursuit approach for robust maximum association measures with an extension for sparsity
Andreas Alfons, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract : The maximum association between two multivariate random variables X and Y...
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November 12, 2019
Operation Research Seminar
Operation Research Seminar : Filip Hazely
One Method to Rule Them All: Variance for Data, Parameters and Many New Methods
Filip Hanzely, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Abstract: We propose a remarkably general variance-reduced method suitable for solving regularized empirical risk minimization problems with...
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November 07, 2019
UCLouvain Seminar
UCLouvain Seminar : Mark Weder
Do We really Know that Monetary Policy was Destabilizing in the 1970s?
Mark Weder, Aarhus University
Abstract: The paper re-examines whether the Federal Reserve's monetary policy was a source of instability during the Great Inflation by estimating a sticky-price model with positive trend...
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