Category: Research

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    A new model to improve storage operations in electricity markets

    The growing share of renewable power generation along with increasing demand for electric mobility changes electricity systems around the world. Challenges include unforeseen and costly imbalances created by fluctuations in renewable power supply that threaten grid stability as well as surges in demand from electric vehicles that lead to load curtailment and decrease transformer lifetime.…

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    You Wu wins Best Student Paper Prize at European Aviation Conference

    Short-term or long-term contracts? This is a question that constantly challenges asset providers as well as logistics service providers. Addressing this challenge, Ms. You Wu’s paper “Contracting strategies for price competing firms under uncertainty” comes to the rescue. The excellence of this paper has been well-recognised and recently it was awarded the Best Student Paper…

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    LCL students win Grand Prize at MIT SCALE Supply Chain Research Expo

    Harika Marisetti and Lakshmi Ravi’s Master thesis project “Economic Value Prediction of Multi-Echelon Safety Stock Optimisation Based on Supply Network Features”, supervised by Prof. Joachim Arts, took home the “Grand Prize” award at the 2022 MIT SCALE Supply Chain Research Expo.

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    Where is my stuff? Supply chains in turbulent times I

    Shortages, delays, empty shelves, higher prices, stockpiling. The supply chain problems are mounting since the beginning of the pandemic and the effects are felt by almost every sector of the economy. Construction for instance was severely affected by drastic shortages of materials coupled with high steel and wood prices. The automotive sector still cannot deliver…

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    Unleashing AI on the Art Market with Roman Kräussl

    Does artificial intelligence have a place in such a fickle and quirky environment as the secondary art market? Can an algorithm learn to predict the value assigned to an artwork at auction? These questions, among others, were analysed by a group of researchers including Roman Kräussl, professor with the Department of Finance at the Faculty…

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    FDEF researchers receive Real Estate Market Analysis Manuscript Prize

    Profs Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, head of the Department of Finance, and François Koulischer, Assistant Professor within the Department of Finance were recently honoured with a 2021 Real Estate Market Analysis Manuscript Prize from the American Real Estate Society (ARES), an organisation of real estate thought leaders drawn from both practice and academia dedicated to encouraging…

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    LCL welcomes its newest cohort of Master students

    On 17 September 2021, the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) officially welcomed the 2021-2022 cohort of Master in Logistics and Supply Chain management students. This will be the fifth cohort of the one-year Master’s programme which began in 2016. 

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    Congratulations to the Class of 2021

    On 22 June 2021, the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) of the Department of Economics and Management (DEM) at the University of Luxembourg came together in-person by following the “Covid Check” guidelines to celebrate its 2021 graduates of the Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) and their outstanding academic…

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    LCL participates in Digital Supply Chain Europe 2021

    On September 14 at the European Convention Center Luxembourg, in Kirchberg, a new edition of the global tech conference ICT Spring was held, the first major in-person (CovidCheck) event in Luxembourg since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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    LCL Hosts ISIR Summer School Workshop 2021

    From 23 August until 27 August 2021, the 15th annual ISIR Summer School Workshop took place at the Kirchberg Campus under the Covid Check regime. Organised by the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and hosted this year by the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) of University of Luxembourg, the LCL…

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