Archives for CORE
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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Operations Research Seminar
Michaël Poss, LIRMM
An introduction to robust combinatorial optimization
Michaël Poss, LIRMM
Robust optimization (RO) has become a central framework to handle the uncertainty that arises in the parameters of optimization problems. While classical RO results can efficiently handle linear programs for a large...
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November 09, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Bilal Zia, World Bank Group
Learning Business Practices from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small-Scale Retailers in Jakarta
Bilal Zia, World Bank Group
Understanding the determinants of growth for micro and small firms in poor countries is a major development goal. This paper studies whether businesses can learn best...
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November 08, 2017
Brown Bag Seminar
Ana Mauleon, Université Saint-Louis
Matching with Myopic and Farsighted Players
Ana Mauleon, Université Saint-Louis & CORE
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