07/05/2025 - 12:50 - CORE C.035 > "Platform Diversification".  Sumit Shrivastav (CORE) will give a presentation on : Platform Diversification. Abstract : Recent trends show that many two-sided platforms are diversifying into additional businesses. This raises an important question: how does a platform’s diversification affect its existing market?

>>> ATTENTION : change of date ! In the context of the new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges", Guilhem Cassan and Amma Panin are pleased to invite you to a special lecture by Professor Jan Eeckhout on his book, The Profit Paradox, which explores the rise of market power in the modern economy and its consequences for wages, inequality, and economic growth.In

22/04/2025 - 15:00 > "Freight-on-Transit for urban last-mile deliveries: Strategic and operational planning by means of integer programming". CORE B.-135  Diego Delle Donne  (ESSEC Business School) will give a presentation on : Freight-on-Transit for urban last-mile deliveries: Strategic and operational planning by means of integer programming. Abstr

16/04/2025 - 12:50 > "Strategically free". CORE C.035  Paul Belleflamme (CORE) will give a presentation on : Strategically free. Abstract : We present a novel rationale for two-sided platforms to offer free access to a specific group of users: platforms may find it advantageous to commit to providing free access on one side in order to alleviate pric

15/04/2025 - 14:00 > "Open problems about the simplex method". Euleur, A.002  Sophie Huiberts (LIMOS) will give a presentation on : Open problems about the simplex method. Abstract : The simplex method is a very efficient algorithm. In this talk we see a few of the state-of-the-art theories for explaining this observation.

10/04/2025    10:00 > "A polyhedral study of multivariate decision trees".  Carla Michini (University of Winsconsin-Madison) will give a presentation on : A polyhedral study of multivariate decision trees. Abstract : Decision trees are a widely used tool for interpretable machine learning.

08/04/2025    15:00 > "Pure Nash equilibria in structured congestion games".  Carla Michini (University of Winsconsin-Madison) will give a presentation on : Pure Nash equilibria in structured congestion games. Abstract : Congestion games are a class of non-cooperative games that can be used to model resource sharing among selfish players.

02/04/2025    12:50 > "Transparency of Add-On Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb".  Leonardo Madio (University of Padova) will give a presentation on : Transparency of Add-On Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb. Abstract : This paper investigates the impact of price transparency on equilibrium prices and fees by con

01/04/2025    15:00 > "Total Matching and Subdeterminants".  Yelena Yuditski (ULB) will give a presentation on : Total Matching and Subdeterminants. Abstract : In the total matching problem, one is given a graph G with weights on the vertices and edges.

--- CANCELLED --- Matteo Bulgarelli (CORE) will give a presentation on : TBA ... Abstract : TBA ...     CORE C.035