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November 22, 2016 (D350) Marianna Battaglia (University of Alicante) Segregation and Fertility: the Case of the Roma in Serbia Abstract: We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey...

As part of CORE's 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Quantitative Economic Geography group, Geog-en-CORE, is organizing a BRU-Net Workshop on Big Data and Urban Geography. The workshop will be held at CORE on Monday November 21, 2016. Objective The recent rise of massive data production...

Optimal Cost Overruns: Procurement Auctions with Renegotiation Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth) Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award procedure when the procurer cannot commit not to renegotiate. If cost...

Being Random - An Impractical Guide. Algorithmic Information Theory Meets Game Theory Zsombor Z. MÉDER, Singapore University of Technology and Design (with Shuige Liu) Nash equilibrium often requires players to adopt a mixed strategy, i.e., a randomized choice between pure strategies....