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As part of the Kronos Group Chair, Louvain School of Management and CORE are organizing the "Procurement 4.0: The Game Changer" Workshop in Louvain-la-Neuve on June 22, 2018. Program 13:00-13:45 Digitalisation and Procurement 4.0 Prof. Dr. Michel Henke, Director of...

Optimal Method for Distributed Convex Optimization and Some Examples Alexander Gasnikov, MPTI, Moscow Based on the works: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00232.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02933.pdf we describe optimal first-order methods for decentralized distributed convex optimization...

High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China Melanie Meng Xue, Northwestern University The cotton revolution (1300-1840 AD) in imperial China constituted a substantial shock to the value of women's work. Using historical gazetteers, I exploit...

An Imaginary Realistic Market Zhengyuan Gao, UCLouvain CORE An imaginary dimension is added to the market, where imaginary values attach to the price, where the imaginary price creates sequential forces, where the imaginary forces influence market participants' beliefs, where heterogeneous...