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    Anomaly or Possible Risk Factor? Simple-To-Use Tests

    Contrary to basic asset pricing theory, this new work by University of Luxembourg Department of Finance Assistant Professor Benjamin Holcblat, Abraham Lioui (EDHEC Business School) and Michael Weber (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, CEPR, and NBER) finds that risk alone cannot explain a large majority of variables predicting differences in expected returns.

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    LCL celebrates its fifth Anniversary

    In 2022, the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) celebrates its fifth Anniversary! The LCL would like to thank the Luxembourg Ministry of Higher Education for its founding support and the Luxembourg Ministry of Economy for supporting the establishment of the new Digital Procurement Chair and track within the LSCM Master programme.

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    University Open Day – 19.03.2022

    What an exciting event! We presented the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Luxembourg Open Day 2022 – such a pleasure to exchange with all the participants in person.From left to right, Master students supporting our Daria Pawlowska, Study Programme Administrator:Anurag SARKAR:”…

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    Examining dual-channel supply chains with visiting PhD Qiaoke Zhang

    Qiaoke Zhang is a visiting Ph.D. student from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics who currently works with Prof. Benny Mantin. Her research centers around operational management in online retailing, including channel and selling format choice problem,  and pricing, etc., by using game theory framework. Ms. Zhang explores questions of quality differentiation in dual-channel supply chains in a…

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    A look back at the LCL pre-eXplore event

    On 9 March the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management hosted a MIT SCALE-wide online event with representatives of the other four MIT SCALE centres worldwide: MIT CTL in the US, NISCI in China, CLI in Colombia and ZLC in Spain. Panellists shared their own experiences and discussed the topic: “The Covid pandemic…

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    Make-or-buy decisions for industrial additive manufacturing

    Anne Friedrich joined the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management as a Research and Development Specialist in 2021. At the LCL, she conducted joint research with Prof. Anne Lange on additive manufacturing technologies in the context of industrial supply chains. Her research has focused on the impact of additive manufacturing on strategic supply…

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    Pricing of Renewable Power Purchase Agreements for Energy Procurement

    Companies with large energy consumption are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprints. More than half of Fortune 500 companies have committed a fraction of their energy demand to be served by renewable energy sources. However, most companies cannot (or prefer not to) install renewable production on site, for example roof-top solar installations, but prefer…

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    FDEF Newsletter – March 2022

    Research, teaching and outreach highlights from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance. 

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    Prof. Luca Ratti Awarded Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour Law

    Open Sesame! Associate Professor Luca Ratti hopes to open the minds of Bachelor and Master students to the possibility of creating a sustainable European social model with the SESaMe (Towards a Sustainable European Social Model) project. Prof. Ratti has been awarded a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour Law to carry out the three-year…

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    Job Opening in Supply Chain Management

    The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct research in Supply Chain Management and who will be working under the supervision of Prof. Benny Mantin.

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