Archives for CORE
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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April 04, 2019
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
James Fenske, Warwick University
Pre-colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India
James Fenske, Warwick University
This paper analyzes the relationship between pre-colonial warfare and long-run development patterns within India. We construct a new, geocoded database of historical conflicts on the Indian...
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April 03, 2019
Brown Bag Seminar
Brown Bag Seminar: Bart Capéau and Zoé Rongé
"(Almost) all you wanted to know about individual well-being in Belgium: it's in the MEqin-data."
Bart Capéau and Zoé Rongé, KULeuven
Almost 9% of the people who are worst off in terms of housing, health and consumption report to be more satisfied with their life than more than 70% of...
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April 02, 2019
Operation Research Seminar
Operations Research Seminar: Erling Andersen
Joint INMA/CORE seminar
A primal-dual interior-point algorithm for non symmetric conic optimization
Erling Andersen, MOSEK
It is well known that primal-dual interior-point algorithms for linear optimization can easily be extended to the case of symmetric conic optimization, as...
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