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Upcoming Events
Historical Human Capital in the Age of Big Data
21-22-23 September | Louvain-la-Neuve
Plenary Speaker
Romain WACZIARG (UCLA, Anderson School of Management)
Registration
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Program
Monday, September 21, 2026
Chairwoman : Paula Gobbi
14.30: Welcome café gourmand
15.00: Neil Cummins (LSE)
“The Evolution of Performative and Sincere Faith in England, 1258-1858”
Discussant: Fabio Mariani
15.50: Coffee break
16.20: Sandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University) - Julius Koschnick (University of Southern Denmark)
“Alienated Intellectuals”.
Discussant : Pau Insa Sánchez
17.10: Coffee break
17.40: Philipp Ager (University of Mannheim)
"Ministers and Minds: The Legacy of Colonial America’s Knowledge Class"
(joint with Paola Giuliano)
Discussant: Luca Pensieroso
18.30: End
19.30: Dinner
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Chairwoman: Amma Panin
09.00: Sebastian Maes (University of Antwerp)
"Polycentrism and the Spatial Allocation of Human Capital”.
Discussant: Chiara Zanardello
09.50: Coffee break
10.20: Thomas Baudin (IESEG School of Management)
Inheritance and Migration: Evidence from 19th Century Italy
with Tommaso D’Amelio. Paula E. Gobbi and Simone Moriconi
Discussant: Karine Moukaddem
11.10: Coffee Break
Plenary session
11.40: Romain Wacziarg (UCLA Anderson)
“Malthusian Migrations”
12.40: Lunch
14.00: David de la Croix (UCLouvain, LIDAM, IRES)
"Seeds of knowledge: scholars, universities, and academies in premodern Europe"
14.50: Coffee break
15.20: Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-EI)
"Political Fragmentation, Forced Mobility, and Knowledge Accumulation in Europe before 1800"
(joint work with Sascha Becker, David de la Croix, and Nico Voigtländer).
Discussant : Fabio Blasutto
16.10: Coffee break
16.40: Caterina Chiopris (Columbia University)
"The Diffusion of Ideas"
Discussant: Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa
17.30: Break
18:20: Marc Goñi (University of Bergen)
"The AI before the Law: LLMs versus Expert Coding of Women's Rights in French Customary Law"
Discussant: Alice Fabre
19.30: Gala Dinner
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Chairwoman: Sandra de Pleijt
09.00: Fabian Waldinger (University of Munich)
"Dictators, Democracies, and Discoveries: Political Institutions and the Creation of Knowledge"
Discussant: Chun Chee Kok
09.50 : Coffee break
10.20: Rossana Scebba (UCLouvain, LIDAM, IRES and KU Leuven, Research Unit of Early Modern History)
"Network-mediated screening under uncertainty: Evidence from early modern academic publishing"
Discussant: Pauline Morault
11.10: Coffee Break
11.40: Karol Borowiecki (University of Southern Denmark) – Matthew Curtis (University of Southern Denmark)
“Counterpoint: Do Peers Shape the Direction of Ideas in Music History?”
Discussant: Morgane Laouenan
12.30: Goodbye Lunch
14:00: The End
Other participants from ERC project: Virginia Calabrese, Mara Vitale
Workshop Electricity Markets at the Interface of Economics and Operations Research
CORE has developed a strong tradition in modeling electricity markets at the intersection of economics and operations research.
This workshop, organized for the CORE 60th anniversary, reflects this interdisciplinary perspective. Electricity markets are studied as markets embedded in complex technical systems.
The workshop focuses on how market design interacts with physical constraints, strategic behavior, and institutional settings.
Topics include challenges related to the energy transition, flexibility, investment adequacy, and European market integration, as well as the role of public intervention in market design.
The program features contributions from international academic speakers.
More specific applications include day-ahead and reserve markets, capacity mechanisms, and renewable support schemes.
Methods range from theory to empirical and computational approaches.
N-side address: Courbevoie 13, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
To register, please fill in the FORM
From 8:30 am till 17:40 pm
| Session | Heure | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | REGISTRATION AND WELCOME | |
| Session 1 | 09:00 | Opening words (CORE & N-SIDE) |
| 09:15 | Iivo Vehviläinen (Aalto University), "Uncertainty Barriers in Energy Transition Dynamics" | |
| 09:50 | David Jesus Andres Cerezo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), "The political economy of electricity market integration in Europe" | |
| 10:25 | Daniel Linnenbrink (University of Mannheim), "The Cost of Fairness in Electricity Markets" | |
| 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Session 2 | 11:30 | Edward Anderson (Imperial College London), "More or Less? How Long-Term Demand Forecasts Shape Optimal Decarbonization Paths" |
| 12:05 | Anthony Papavasiliou (National Technical University of Athens), "Summer of 24: Market Power and Price Formation in the European Electricity Market" | |
| 12:40 | Trine Krogh Boomsma (University of Copenhagen), "Unit commitment constrained Nash equilibrium in power markets" | |
| 13:15 | SANDWICH LUNCH | |
| Session 3 | 14:15 | Christoph Graf (New York University), "Assessing the System Impacts of Price Elastic Demand for Renewable Energy Credits Using a Long-Term Investment Planning Framework" |
| 14:50 | Pär Holmberg (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm), "Revenue Equivalence between Energy-Only Markets and Electricity Markets with Uplift Payments under Non-Convex Costs" | |
| 15:25 | Ignacio Aravena (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | |
| 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Session 4 | 16:30 | Özlem Mahmutoğulları (KU Leuven), "Adaptive Robust Optimization for Frequency-Constrained Market Clearing Problem" |
| 17:05 | Thomas Hübner (ETH Zürich), "On the Design of Stochastic Electricity Auctions" |
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