Archives for CORE
May 02, 2017
Operations Research Seminar
Seminar: George Liberopoulos
Critical Review of Pricing Schemes in Markets with Non-Convex Costs
George LIBEROPOULOS, University of Thessaly
We consider a market in which suppliers with asymmetric capacities and asymmetric marginal and fixed costs compete to satisfy a deterministic and inelastic demand of a commodity in a...
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April 27, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Alessandro Tarozzi
Evaluation of Alternative Strategies to Increase Demand for and Responses to Information on Arsenic-contaminated Tubewell Water in Bangladesh
Alessandro Tarozzi, Univ. Pompeu Fabra
Lack of reliable information on environmental risk is often a key constraint limiting the extent of...
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April 25, 2017
Operations Research Seminar
Seminar: Benjamin F. Hobbs
Crediting Renewables in Electricity Capacity Markets:
The Effects of Alternative Definitions upon Market Efficiency
Benjamin F. Hobbs, John Hopkins University
As the penetration of intermittent renewable energy in electricity markets grows, there is increasing need for capacity markets to...
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April 21, 2017
Econometrics and Finance Seminar
Seminar: Jing Cynthia Wu
Time-Varying Lower Bound of Interest Rates in Europe
Jing Cynthia WU, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
We study the effectiveness of negative interest rate policy on the yield curve with a new shadow-rate term structure model. We price bonds with forward-looking agents in a...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Jérôme Pouyet
Vertical mergers in platform markets
Jérôme Pouyet, PSE
We analyze the competitive impact of vertical integration between a platform and a manufacturer when platforms provide operating systems for devices sold by manufacturers to customers, and, customers care about the applications developed...
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