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March 12, 2019
Operation Research Seminar
Operations Research Seminar: Roland Hildebrand
Towards an optimal barrier on arbitrary convex cones
Roland Hildebrand, University Grenoble Alpes
Self-concordant barriers are essential for interior-point algorithms in conic programming. The convergence rate of such an algorithm depends on a scalar parameter n. The smaller the...
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From 08 to 09/03/2019
Conférence
4th Belgian-Japanese Public Finance Workshop
Profs. Jean Hindriks and Pierre Pestieau, together with a group of academics in Osaka University (Japan), have decided to renew the annual meeting in public finance between Japan and Belgium. The workshop will be held at CORE in Louvain-la-Neuve on March 8-9, 2019.
Attendance is free, but...
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March 07, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a sharp rise in the college wage premium. In contrast, in a number of European...
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March 01, 2019
Bru-Net workshop | Spatial Big Data in urban...
About the seminar
The seminar will discuss the contribution of spatial big data and their relevance to urban studies. The day will be an opportunity to highlight the conclusions of the four-year interdisciplinary Bru-Net research project, which focused in particular on the case of Brussels...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar: Sandy Tubeuf
(In)-equality of opportunity in the allocation of R&D resources for rare diseases
Sandy Tubeuf, UCLouvain an University of Leeds
This paper investigates the existence of inequalities of opportunity in the allocation of R&D resources within rare diseases and identifies the...
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