Seminars of the week

Updated on 06/02/2012 
February 2, 2012 - 12h45 IRES
D144

Oded GALOR, Brown University
The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
IRES Research Seminar

     
February 6, 2012 - 14h30

CORE
b-135

Jean-Marie DUFOUR, McGill University, Canada
Exogeneity tests, weak identification and IV estimation: Is the cure worse than the illness?
Joint CORE-ISBA Econometrics Seminar in teh frame of the ARC project on Time Series
 
       
February 6, 2012 - 16h CORE
b-135
Martin PEITZ, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Markets for ideas, asymmetric information and the allocation of managerial skills
Economic Theory Seminar
 
       
February 7, 2012 - 16h30

CORE
b-135

Sebastian POKUTTA, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
On linear programming formulations of the TSP polytope
Mathematical Programming Seminar

 
       
February 9, 2012 - 12h45 IRES
D-144

Muriel ROGER, Paris School of Economics and INSEE
Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
IRES Research Seminar

 
       
February 10, 2012 - 14:00 CORE
b-135
Simon BURGESS, Bristol University, United Kindgdom
Student effort and educational attainment: using the England football team to identify the education production
PAI Seminar on Educaiton and Social Mobility
 
       
February 10, 2012 - 16:00 CORE
b-135
Arnaud LEFRANC, THEMA, Université de Cergy Pontoise, France
Educational expansion, earnings compression and changes in intergenerational economic mobility: evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1976
PAI Seminar on Educaiton and Social Mobility
 
       
February 10, 2012 - 14:30 CANCELLED!

ISBA
c115

Philippe Bocquier, (Centre DEMO, UCL) & Donatien Béguy, African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Republic of Kenya 
Two-stage equation model to control for informative attrition in mortality analysis:
use of longitudinal data from demographic surveillance systems
 
Applied statistics workshops
 
       
February 13, 2012 - 12:00 ECARES

Sébastien VAN BELLEGEM, CORE, UCL, Belgium
Functional linear instrumental regression
ECORE Seminar

 
       
February 13, 2012 - 16:00

CORE
b-135

Swati DHINGRA, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
The impact of integration on productivity and welfare distortions under monopolistic competition
Joint Economic and Trade & Economic Geography Seminar
 
       
February 14, 2012 - 16:30

CORE
b-135

Aadhaar CHATURVEDI, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
Split award auctions for supplier retention
Joint Mathematical Programming and CESCM & GSK Chair Seminar
 
       
February 17, 2012 - 14:30

ISBA
c115

Geurt Jongbloed, Delft University of Technology , Delft, The Netherlands
Random Fraction of a Biased Sample, old models and a new one
Statistics seminar
 
       
February 27, 2012 - 14:30

CORE
b-135

Abdelaati Daouia, ISBA, UCL, Belgium 
"On Projection-Type Estimators of Multivariate Isotonic Functions" 
Joint CORE-ISBA seminar (in the frame of ARC Time Series)