Archives for CORE
November 21, 2017
Operations Research Seminar
Operations Research Seminar: Mette Björndal
Congestion Management in a Stochastic Dispatch Model for Electricity Markets
Mette Björndal, Norwegian School of Economics
We consider an electricity market organized with two settlements: one for a pre-delivery (day-ahead) market and one for real time, where uncertainty regarding production...
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November 16, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Paul Heidhues, University of Dusseldorf
Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning
Paul Heidhues, University of Dusseldorf
We explore the learning process and behavior of an individual with unrealistically high expectations (“overconfidence”) when outcomes also depend on an external fundamental that affects the optimal...
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November 15, 2017
IMMAQ-LSM Talk: Paul de Grauwe
IMMAQ, together with LSM, is organizing a talk with Paul de Grauwe (LSE) where he will present his latest book, The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum between Government and Market. The event will be held at UCL (Place de l'Université 1, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve) on Wednesday, November 15,...
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November 15, 2017
Brown Bag Seminar
Huanwei Huang, LSE
Germs, Roads and Trade: Resilience of Globally Sourcing Firms in Face of the SARS Epidemic
Huanwei Huang (LSE)
Global sourcing has allowed firms to find the best input from a global market but also exposed them to foreign shocks. Which firms are more resilient to shocks along the supply...
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November 14, 2017
Operations Research Seminar
Yuji Shinano, Zuse Institute Berlin
Harnessing over a Million CPU Cores to Solve a Single Hard Mixed Integer Programming Problem on a Supercomputer
Yuji Shinano, Zuse Institute Berlin
Mixed integer programming (MIP) is a general form to model combinatorial optimization problems and has many industrial applications. The...
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