Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning Workshop 

The Janeway Institute and the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore co-sponsored a workshop on "Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning", from 22nd-23rd September 2023.

Event Date - Friday 22nd September 2023 - Saturday 23rd September 2023

Markov Decision Process

MDP

Models

Decision Making

Networks Webinar Series - Krishna Dasaratha 

The Janeway Institute hosts the Networks Webinar Series which is organised by George Charlson, Sanjeev Goyal and Matt Elliott.

For the webinar on Friday 5th May 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Krishna Dasaratha (Boston) will give a talk on his paper "Learning from Viral Content", joint with Kevin He.

Event Date - Friday 5th May 2023

Networks

Social Media

Social Learning

Models

Faculty student wins Young Economist Award 

Faculty of Economics student, Alastair Langtry, has been awarded the 2022 EEA Young Economist Award, for his paper “Keeping up with ‘The Joneses’: reference dependent choice with social comparisons”.

Published on - Friday 30th September 2022

Awards

Skilled Workers

Models

Social Comparisons

Economics without prices and without games: The Marshall Lecture 

Professor Ariel Rubinstein was invited to give the Marshall Lecture for 2022, and brought insights into Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Choice Theory.

Published on - Wednesday 22nd June 2022

Game Theory

Experimental Economics

Choice Theory

Models

Dynamic early warning of conflict 

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office now has access to a forecast and costing model which uses machine learning and newspaper text to predict outbreaks and intensity of internal armed conflict.

Published on - Monday 20th June 2022

Conflict

Governments

Models

Risk Estimation

Using machine learning to study parenting styles 

Dr. Christopher Rauh and Laëtitia Renée (Université de Montréal) have published an article for VOXeu that uses unsupervised machine learning to measure parenting styles applied to a panel of Canadian children from age five months to just over two years.

Published on - Monday 11th July 2022

Children

Machine Learning

Models

Parenting

Predicting when and where conflict breaks out 

Funding by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has allowed development of a new model for forecasting conflict, led by Assistant Professor Christopher Rauh.

Published on - Thursday 5th May 2022

Conflict

Models

Prediction

Risk Estimation

Predicting Conflict - Sustainable Development Talks 

Dr. Christopher Rauh spoke to the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks series about his research into conflict prediction. Read More>>

Published on - Monday 23rd May 2022

Conflict

Forecasting

Models

Risk Estimation

Marshall Lecture 2022 - Prof. Ariel Rubinstein 

Professor Ariel Rubinstein (School of Economics, Tel Aviv University) will give this years Marshall Lecture on "Economics without prices and without games". The lectures will take place on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th April 2022. Both lectures will start at 5.00pm and be held in Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge. A question and answer session will take place after the second lecture.

Event Date - Thursday 28th April 2022 - Friday 29th April 2022

Economic Theory

Models

Social Status

Preference Biases

Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics Workshop - Videos 

Watch videos from the Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods Workshop, hosted by Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and the Isaac Newton Institute. Read More>>

Published on - Friday 4th March 2022

Behaviour

COVID-19

Models

Policy

Rational Epidemic Theory and Game Theoretic Models 

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a plenary talk at The Bridging Disciplinary Divides for Behaviorally Modulated Mathematical Models in Human Epidemiology workshop. Read More>>

Published on - Thursday 27th May 2021

COVID-19

Epidemic Theory

Game Theory

Models

Oliver Linton Elected Society for Financial Econometrics President 

The Society for Financial Econometrics is a global network of academics and practitioners dedicated to sharing research and ideas in the fast growing field of financial econometrics.

Published on - Tuesday 6th April 2021

Finance

Econometrics

Models

Methods

Predicting When Conflict Breaks Out: A Hard Problem 

Dr Christopher Rauh is proposing a new model for forecasting conflict, which could predict when outbreaks of violence might escalate and spill into armed conflict.

Published on - Thursday 25th March 2021

Conflict

Prediction

Models

Risk Estimation

Can You Predict the Risk of Armed Conflict in the World? 

La Vanguardia newspaper has published an article that reports on Dr. Christopher Rauh's new model for forecasting conflict. Read More>>

Published on - Friday 26th March 2021

Conflict

Prediction

Models

Risk Estimation

NIESR Weekly Covid-19 Tracker Using Time Series Model 

A new study co-authored by Emeritus Professor Andrew Harvey produces good forecasts of epidemics before new cases or deaths peak. Read More>>

Published on - Sunday 21st February 2021

COVID-19

Time Series

Forecasting

Models

Social Distancing: Two Extensions of the Standard Model Research Seminar 

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a talk about his research into "Social Distancing: Two Extensions of the Standard Model" as part of the Adam Smith's Panmure House research seminar series. Read More>>

Published on - Tuesday 12th January 2021

COVID-19

Social Distancing

Epidemiology

Models

Teaching, Learning & Innovation Fund Award 

Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has been awarded a grant by the Teaching, Learning & Innovation Fund. Dr. Toxvaerd's project is "Understanding economic models through interactive graphs: a platform for visualisation and independent student experimentation using Mathematica".

Published on - Monday 28th October 2019

Models

Modelling

Software

Info-Metrics Conference on Information-Theoretic Methods of Inference 

Prof. Richard J Smith and Alastair Hall (University of Manchester) organised a two-day workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods of Inference. The workshop focused on the use of info-metric and information-theoretic ideas in the development and analysis of statistical models, and was held at Clare College, University of Cambridge.

Event Date - Friday 1st April 2016 - Saturday 2nd April 2016

Information-Theoretic

Inference

Statistics

Models

New Directions in Quantile Regression 

Quantile regression is a comprehensive ensemble of statistical techniques for estimating models for conditional quantile functions. This conference will bring together leading contributors to the quantile regression literature to discuss recent developments, raise open problems and consider future research challenges.

Event Date - Thursday 10th December 2015 - Friday 11th December 2015

Quantile Regression

Estimation

Models

Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti "Metaphors and Models of the Eurozone Crisis" 

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will be giving the Edgeworth Lecture on "Metaphors and Models of the Eurozone Crisis", at the 29th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference, on May 8th 2015. Read More>>

Published on - Friday 8th May 2015

Models

Eurozone

EU

Masterclass with Wolfgang Härdle 

Cambridge-INET will be hosting a Masterclass with Prof. Wolfgang Härdle (Federal Reserve) at the Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge, on the 28th - 29th May 201=4, from 09.30am - 6.00pm. Please register you interest.

Published on - Wednesday 28th May 2014

Time Series

Models

Time-varying

non-Gaussian

Masterclass with Marc Hallin 

Cambridge-INET will be hosting a Masterclass with Prof. Marc Hallin (Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the Mathematics Department of the Université libre de Bruxelles and the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics.) in the Keynes and Meade Room, Faculty of Economics Cambridge, on the 17th - 19th February 2014.

Published on - Saturday 1st February 2014

Time Series

Dynamics

Models