John Horton (MIT Sloan School of Management) will give a presentation on: Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? Newly-developed large language models (LLM)—because of how they are trained and designed—are implicit computational models of humans—a homo silicus.

CANCELLED Dr. Quentin Lété - ETH Zürich will give a presentation on Power Generation Investment under Zonal Electricity Pricing with Market-Based Re-dispatch Abstract: There is currently an intense debate in Europe on the allocation transmission capacity in the internal electricity market.

Robin Ng (University of Mannheim) will give a presentation on Competition through Recommendations Abstract: This paper explores if and how platforms should design informative recommendation systems. I show that monopolist platforms prefer recommendation systems that are more informative than value-for-money.

POSTPONED Nicolas Stevens - CORE will give a presentation on The Many Advantages of Convex Hull Pricing for the European Electricity Auction Abstract: Since the liberalization of the power sector and the creation of wholesale electricity markets, the question of how to price the non-convexities present in the market has attracted the interest of both academics and practitioners.

Giorgio Ferroni (UNamur) will give a presentation on Competition in Peer-To-Peer Markets Abstract: Peer-to-peer (P2P) markets, such as Uber and AirBnB, allow consumers to find suitable small and independent service providers. In doing so, platforms that manage P2P markets indirectly compete with established traditional providers. Building on Einav et al.

Paul Belleflamme (CORE) will give a presentation on Manipulating Perceived Product Differentiation (joint with Fabrizio Ciotti). Abstract: A digital platform operates a marketplace that two competing firms use to offer a product to consumers. Consumers perceive the products of the two firms as horizontally differentiated.

Jehum Cho - CORE will give a presentation on  Exact Mixed-Integer Programming Approach for Chance-Constrained Multi-Area Reserve Sizing Abstract: An exact algorithm is developed for the chance-constrained multi-area reserve sizing problem in the presence of transmission network constraints.

Dr. Daniel Avila Girardot - CORE will give a presentation on Applying High-Performance Computing to the European Resource Adequacy Assessment Abstract: This work considers the European Resource Adequacy Assessment, which is a pan-European resource adequacy process that is being developed by the European Networks of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).

Ozge Demirci (Harvard Business School) will give a presentatio on: Who is AI replacing? The impact of ChatGPT on online freelancing platforms. ZOOM link Abstract: This paper studies the impact of generative AI technologies on the demand for online freelancers, using a large dataset from a leading global freelancing platform.

POSTPONED Dr. Allan Sapucaia - CORE will give a presentation on Optimizing over path-length matrices of unrooted binary trees Abstract: We characterize the set Θn of the path-length matrices induced by unrooted binary trees with n leaves, based in part on a strengthening of results on the tree realization problem.