Archives for CORE
October 21, 2016
Seminar: Geneviève Gauthier
Firm-Specific Credit Risk Modelling in the Presence of Statistical Regimes and Noisy Prices
Geneviève GAUTHIER, HEC Montréal
(with Jean-François Bégin, Mathieu Boudreault , Delia Doljanu and Tommy Thomassin)
Security prices are important inputs for estimating credit risk models. Yet, to...
Click to know more 
October 20, 2016
Seminar: Sandra McNally
Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Sandra McNally (University of Surrey)
(Joint paper with Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuel)
In many countries, there are important thresholds in examinations which act as a gateway to higher levels of...
Click to know more 
October 19, 2016
Seminar: Andreu Arenas
Countercyclical Schooling and Intergenerational Mobility
Andreu ARENAS, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
(Joint with Clément Malgouyres, Banque de France)
We study how economic conditions at the time of choosing post-compulsory education affect schooling attainment by parental...
Click to know more 
October 18, 2016
CORE Nobel Talk: Jean TIROLE
As part of CORE’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, Profs. Philippe CHEVALIER and Paul Belleflamme (CORE) organized a CORE Nobel Talk on "Moral Reasoning, Markets and Organizations" with Prof. Jean TIROLE (TSE). The seminar was held on October 18, 11:30 a.m. at UCL.
Prof. Jean Tirole
Jean...
Click to know more 
October 18, 2016
Seminar: Sebastian Stich
Randomized Algorithms for Convex Optimization
Sebastian STICH, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
In the last years, randomized optimization algorithms, and especially coordinate descent methods attracted more and more attention in the optimization community. These methods often...
Click to know more