Archives for CORE
February 22, 2018
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Harris Dellas, University of Bern
Fiscal Policy with an Informal Sector
Harris Dellas, University of Bern
Macroeconomic models that omit the shadow economy systematically mis-forecast and mis-measure the effect of fiscal - in particular tax - policy on economic activity and tax revenue. We add an informal sector to the Bank of...
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February 21, 2018
Brown Bag Seminar
Murat Yilmaz, ECARES, ULB
The Bargaining Set of an Exchange Economy with Discrete Resources
Murat Yilmaz, ECARES, ULB
A central notion for allocation problems when there are private endowments is core: no coalition should be able to block the allocation. However, for an exchange economy of discrete resources, core...
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February 15, 2018
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Sebastian Krautheim, University of Passau
The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Vacuum
Sebastian Krautheim, University of Passau
Multinational firms can exploit cross-country differences in environmental and labor regulation in ways that some civil society actors consider `unethical'. This may trigger advocacy...
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February 13, 2018
Operations Research Seminar
Geovani Nunes Grapiglia, Federal University of Paraná
Improved Optimization Methods for Image Registration Problems
Geovani Nunes Grapiglia, Federal University of Paraná
In many applications, multiple images of the same subject are obtained at different moments in time and under different conditions. The goal is to identify changes in the...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Heiko Karle, Frankfurt School
Competition and Information Quality in the Market for News
Heiko Karle, Frankfurt School
We develop a model of a two-sided media market, in which profit-maximizing media outlets first commit to the degree of horizontal and vertical differentiation of their news reports and then compete...
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