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… regions 14 3. Methodology The methodology used for this research is an exploratory mapping study, employing a mix of qualitative methods, namely extended desk research and interviews with experts and service providers. As a first step, a systematic online search was conducted to identify services for newcomers and other organisations and institutions working with newcomers. The online search covered each of the EMR’s sub-regions separately and used various search terms including “migrant … is the most international university of the Netherlands, with approximately half of the students population and one third of employees coming from abroad. https://www.willkommen-in-aachen.de/ 19 The Holland Expat Centre South (HECS)23 is a one-stop-shop for newly arrived internationals in the Southern parts of the Netherlands with a site in Maastricht. The HECS provides information and support for internationals and their families to help them settle into their new living and working environment. … and combined with guided tours or arts performances so that internationals also get to know Maastricht’s different neighbourhoods and cultural offers. In addition, HECS organises information workshops, e.g. for internationals who would like to buy a house in the Netherlands or start their own business. For these events, HECS cooperates with other specialised institutions in the field like the Starters Centrum Limburg24, the Housing Help Desk25 and the Maastricht Business Contact Centre26. On …

… to “stale news” which merely repeat previous revelations (Tetlock, 2011), and to focus on “attention- grabbing” stocks in the media rather than considering all available information (Barber and Odean, 2008). More generally, sentiments in news and online searches predict stock returns and trading volumes (Tetlock, 2007), stocks with low coverage have higher returns (Fang and Peress, 2009). Beyond traditional news media, activity in specialist chat rooms (e.g. RagingBull) predicts high volatility … (Antweiler and Frank, 2004), and sentiment indicators extracted from online forums and searches can predict returns (Chen et al., 2014). A growing economic literature also compares online and offline news (Gentzkow, 2011). Open questions remain in this field regarding social media: How is social media content processed? Is it processed differently from traditional online and offline news? Which models best describe the role of information from different sources? This project relies on … W., & Frank, M. Z. (2004). Is all that talk just noise? The information content of internet stock message boards. The Journal of Finance, 59(3), 1259-1294. Barber, B. M., & Odean, T. (2007). All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors. The Review of Financial Studies, 21(2), 785-818. Chen, H., De, P., Hu, Y., & Hwang, B. H. (2014). Wisdom of crowds: The value of stock opinions transmitted through social media. The Review of …

… mailto:linda.rieswijk@maastrichtuniversity.nl https://coursecatalogue.maastrichtuniversity.nl/linda.rieswijk Data Science for Decision Making 11 describing experimental data. This course treats two different areas of optimization: nonlinear optimization and combinatorial optimization. Nonlinear optimization deals with the situation that there is a continuum of available solutions. A best solution is then usually approximated with one of several available general-purpose … techniques and will require them to read and understand published scientific papers from recent Machine Learning conferences. Prerequisites Desired Prior Knowledge: Machine Learning Recommended reading Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - C.M. Bishop; Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning - D. Barber; Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning - C.E. Rasmussen & C. Williams; The Elements of Statistical Learning - T. Hastie et al. KEN4154 Period 2 30 Oct 2023 22 Dec 2023 Print course description … There are often constraints on the order in which tasks, or ‘jobs’ can be performed, and there are usually capacity constraints of the machines. This leads to natural, industrially critical optimization problems. For example, a company might choose to buy many machines to process jobs, but then there is a risk that the machines will be underused, which is economically inefficient. On the other hand, too few machines, or an inappropriate ordering of tasks, may lead to machines spending a significant …

… Housing Markets in a Pandemic: Evidence from Historical Outbreaks Marc Francke∗ Matthijs Korevaar† April 2, 2020 Abstract How do housing markets respond to the outbreak of a major pandemic? This paper answers this question by analyzing unique transaction and mortality data around historical outbreaks of the plague in Amsterdam and cholera in Paris. We document that these outbreaks had a significant impact on house prices, but a smaller … is the housing market. On the one hand, pandemics can result in a direct decline in housing demand due to excess mortality and economic hardship. On the other hand, the uncertainty brought by the epidemic might refrain households and investors from buying and selling property. It is challenging to assess the impact of such an epidemic on the housing market. While epidemics typically arrive suddenly and are therefore unrelated to the state of the economy, they are also infrequent, such that data … . As we do not have detailed property information, we include street fixed effects (1521 streets). We have information on transaction type (four different types) and some crude descriptions of the property, like the presence of a building, a garden, a shop, etcetera. In total, we have 25 property related dummy variables. We use identical variables for the plague as in the repeat sales model. Table 2 presents estimation results from the repeat sales and hedonic price model. Our sample covers seven …

… Kullmann 74 % 5 % 3 % 8 % 10 % TOENEMENDE FLEXIBILITEIT 2012 zzp bepaalde tijd uitzend oproepvast werknemer 6,3 zzp 1,1 VERHOUDING “WERKENDEN” 2012 INKOMENSACHTERUITGANG WW-uitkering o.b.v. maandloon eerste 2 maanden: 75% vanaf 3e maand: 70% “Ik snap die kritiek. Ik zie ook dat mensen lang vastzitten in werkloosheid. Mijn boodschap is: kom met goede plannen. Ik haal regelmatig mensen om tafel. Ik wil niets liever dan deze groep helpen maar het is een taai probleem.” ZEMBLA - MINISTER ASSCHER …

… Kullmann 74 % 5 % 3 % 8 % 10 % TOENEMENDE FLEXIBILITEIT 2012 zzp bepaalde tijd uitzend oproepvast werknemer 6,3 zzp 1,1 VERHOUDING “WERKENDEN” 2012 INKOMENSACHTERUITGANG WW-uitkering o.b.v. maandloon eerste 2 maanden: 75% vanaf 3e maand: 70% “Ik snap die kritiek. Ik zie ook dat mensen lang vastzitten in werkloosheid. Mijn boodschap is: kom met goede plannen. Ik haal regelmatig mensen om tafel. Ik wil niets liever dan deze groep helpen maar het is een taai probleem.” ZEMBLA - MINISTER ASSCHER …