Archives for CORE
December 06, 2016
Seminar: Hamza Fawzi
Semidefinite Approximations of Matrix Logarithm
Hamza FAWZI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Joint work with James Saunderson (Monash University) and Pablo Parrilo (MIT))
We propose a new way to treat the exponential/relative entropy cone using symmetric cone solvers. Our...
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Seminar: Laurent E. Calvet
Rich Pickings? Risk, Return, and Skill in the Portfolios of the Wealthy
Laurent CALVET, HEC Paris
(with Laurent Bach and Paolo Sodini)
This paper investigates the risk and return characteristics of household wealth. Using a high-quality administrative panel of Swedish residents, we show...
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Seminar: Fabrice Collard
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy
Fabrice COLLARD, University of Bern
(Joint paper with G.M. Angeletos and G. Dellas)
We study the Ramsey policy problem in an economy in which public debt contributes to the supply of assets that private agents can use as buffer stock and...
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Seminar: Ieva Linkeviciute
Aggregation of Demand-Side Flexibility in Electricity Markets: The Effects of Portfolio Choice
Ieva Linkeviciute, Copenhagen Business School
Aggregation of demand-side flexibility for balancing purposes is seen as one way to cope with the challenges imposed by increasing share of renewable...
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Seminar: Christian Brownlees
Impulse Response Estimation by Smooth Local Projections
Christian Brownlees, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(joint with Regis Barnichon)
Vector autoregressions (VAR) and local projections (LP) are well established methodologies for the estimation of impulse responses (IR). These techniques...
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