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March 23, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Jose I. Silva
Local labor market effects of public employment
Jose I. Silva, Univ. Girona
This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the first, we develop a 3-sector...
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Brown Bag Seminar
Seminar: Simon Schopohl
Information Transmission in Hierarchies
Simon Schopohl, CORE& Bielefeld University
We analyze a game in which players with unique information are arranged in a hierarchy. In the lowest layer each player can decide in each of several rounds either to pass the information to his successor or...
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Operations Research Seminar
Seminar: Vladimir Shikhman
Tatonnements for Cobb-Douglas economy based on the power method
Vladimir Shikhman, Technical University of Chemnitz
We consider the general economy with agents maximizing Cobb-Douglas utilities from the algorithmic perspective. It is known that finding equilibrium prices reduces to an...
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Econometrics and Finance Seminar
Seminar: Christian Robert
Asymptotic Properties of Approximate Bayesian Computation
Christian ROBERT, Université Paris Dauphine
Joint with David T. Frazier, Gael M. Martin, and Christian P. Robert Judith Rousseau.
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is becoming an accepted tool for statistical analysis in models...
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UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Céline Poilly
Do Misperceptions about Demand Matter?
Theory and Evidence
Céline Poilly, AMSE
Joint with Kenza Benhima
In this paper, we assess theoretically and empirically the consequences of demand misperceptions. To this end, we develop a New Keynesian model with dispersed information where...
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