Seminario 20/14: Jan-J. Rückmann (University of Bergen), Stability of C-stationary Points for Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints

optimization

We consider the class of mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCC). Under an appropriate constraint qualification of Mangasarian-Fromovitz type we present a topological and an equivalent algebraic characterization of a stronglystable C-stationary point of MPCC. Strong stability refers to the local uniqueness, existence and continuous dependence of a solution for each sufficiently small perturbed problem…

Seminario 20/13: Joscea Krause (Universität Trier). Regularized Small Area Estimation: A Framework for Robust Estimates in the Presence of Unknown Measurement Errors

econometria

SAE provides stable estimates of area statistics in the presence of small samples. This is achieved by combining observations from multiple areas in suitable regression models.These models exploit the functional relation between the area statistic and contextually related covariate data to make predictions for the quantities of interest. An important assumption of this methodologyis that…

Seminario 20/12: Sergio Hernández (Fragile Technologies, S.L.,Murcia) El comportamiento inteligente como un problema de optimización resoluble

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“Se dice que todo problema es un problema de optimización, pero no sabemos cómo convertir todos los problemas en simples funciones a optimizar y, aunque lo supiésemos, no sabemos resolver el problema de la optimización de forma general; sólo sabemos hacerlo con cierta eficiencia si el dominio es convexo y la función es convexa, continua…

Seminario 20/11: Daniel Santín (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Comparing the Evolution of Productivity and Performance Gaps in Education Systems through DEA: An Application to Latin American Countries

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The main objective of this paper is to propose a tool for measuring the productivity and performance gaps across a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs)for monitoring their evolution and analyzing their components over time. To do this, we use the approach proposed by Aparicio and Santín (2018), which isgrounded on a base-group base-period productivity…

Seminario 20/10: Javier Cuenca (Universidad de Murcia). Computación de altas prestaciones: pieza clave en el avance científico

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La metodología general de investigación en cualquier campo científico está organizada como una serie de etapas para la consecución del objetivo propuesto a partir de una hipótesis de partida. En cada una de estas etapas nos encontramos con una metodología de desarrollo, unos instrumentos que utilizar, un contexto de realización y unos requerimientos de precisión…

Seminario 20/09: Alfonso Rosa (UM): Preventing (panic) bank runs.

bank run

We  study experimentally how to prevent bank runs using a mechanism inspired in Andolfatto et al. (2017). They propose a mechanism that eliminates bank runs as an equilibrium situation of the deposit contract and implements uniquely the efficient outcome. In our experimental enviroment bank runs may emerge both as a coordination failure in equilibrium and…

Seminario 20/08: David Rodríguez-Justicia (URV): Voting with tax compliance: Ideological stances and tax morale

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Based on predictions from a theoretical model in which voters’ tax compliance behavior is driven by fairness concerns we empirically analyze the channels through which ideological stances influence citizens’ willingness to pay taxes. By using heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variables we find that ideological differences between citizens and their governments cause a decrease in tax morale. An…

Seminario 20/07: David Conesa (Universidad de Valencia). ¿Puede la Bioestadística arreglar el mundo?

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Cuando nos encontramos en las noticias cada día desastres naturales como incendios, inundaciones y epidemias, nos podemos plantear si es posible hacer algo para prevenir o saber más sobre dichos desastres. En esta charla veremos como es posible ayudar a mejorar nuestro conocimiento de los problemas relacionados con las ciencias de la vida y la…

Seminario 20/06: Jose Carlos Rodríguez Alcantud (Universidad de Salamanca): Simple majorities with voice but no vote

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Oligarchic majority rules bring the voice but no vote principle into effect. We prove characterizations of the oligarchic majority rules for both fixed and unrestricted societies and a binary agenda. This is a general class of rules that includes  the simple majority rule as well as dictatorships. Suitable sets of axioms identify a subsociety whose members have…

Seminario 20/05: Justo Puerto, IMUS, Universidad de Sevilla. Generalized Multisource Regression: A framework for locating hyperplanes to fitting sets of points

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In this talk we revisit common problems of Data Science [1, 2]. Specifically, we focus on the problem of locating a given number of hyperplanes minimizing a globalizing function of the closest distances from a set of points. Following an initial attempt in [3], we propose a general framework for the problem in which general…