Archives for CORE
May 02, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Alessandro Sommacal, University of Verona
Flat tax reforms in Italy through the lens of an heterogenous agents OLG model
Alessandro Sommacal, University of Verona
We explore the impact of reforming the personal income tax in Italy, introducing several types of flat tax schemes. To this end, we build an heterogeneous agents...
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April 24, 2019
Brown Bag Seminar
Brown Bag Seminar: Sylvain Funck
Matching couples with farsighted agents
Sylvain Funck, CORE and USL-B
This paper studies a model of matchings where each individual can be either single or part of a couple. In addition, we assume that each agent is farsighted. This means that she can anticipate which deviations...
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April 23, 2019
Operation Research Seminar
Operations Research Seminar: Andy Philpott
Efficiency of Markets with Hydroeletricity
Andy Philpott, University of Auckland
The New Zealand wholesale electricity market is dominated by generation from hydroelectric reservoirs, and does not have access to electricity imports when droughts result in energy supply shortages. Using a...
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April 11, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Chiara Farronato, Harvard Business School
Consumer Protection in an Online World: an Analysis of Occupational Licensing
Chiara Farronato, Harvard Business School
This paper studies the effects of occupational licensing on consumer choices and market outcomes in a large online platform for residential home services, where...
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April 05, 2019
Econometrics and Finance Seminar
Econometrics, Finance and Statistic seminar: David...
Joint Econometrics/Finance/Statistics Seminar
Enhancing Power in Asymptotic and Finite Sample Frameworks
David Preinerstorfer, ULB
In this talk I will discuss properties of the ``power enhancement principle'' recently introduced by Fan et al. (2015). The first part of the...
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