Course/seminar

Bayesian VAR Workshop" with the participation of Christopher A. Sims, 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics

June 22, 2016

CORE Nobel Talk on "The Precarious Fiscal Foundations of EMU: A Reassessment after 17 Years"

The title refers to C. Sims (1999) "The Precarious Fiscal Foundations of EMU", De Economist 147, 415-436)

CORE (Center for Operations Research & Econometrics) organized a CORE-Wide seminar with Prof. Christopher SIMS (Princeton University).
The seminar was held on June 22, 2016, 11:00 a.m. at UCL. followed by a reception at 12:00 and a workshop at 2:00 p.m.

Date: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Address: 
Belgium

CORE Lecture Series: Alfred GALICHON

June 06, 2016

June 08, 2016

CORE, b-135

Optimal Transport And Economic Applications: Modelling and Estimation

These lectures will introduce the theory of optimal transport, and applications to discrete choice analysis and to the estimation of matching markets. The basics of optimal transport are recalled. A compact presentation of additive demand models and matching models with transferable utility is given. The second part of the course deals with the statistical estimation of these models and presents empirical applications.

Date: 
Monday, June 6, 2016 to Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Address: 
CORE, b-135
Belgium