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HEC Montréal
Education•Montreal, Quebec, Canada•
About: HEC Montréal is a education organization based out in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Vehicle routing problem & Corporate governance. The organization has 1221 authors who have published 5708 publications receiving 196862 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal & HEC Montreal.
Topics: Vehicle routing problem, Corporate governance, Heuristic (computer science), Context (language use), Monetary policy
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TL;DR: A new model, a heuristic, and an exact labeling algorithm for the problem of finding the optimal charging decisions for a given route, and introduces a path-based model which outperforms the classical models in experiments.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an empirical study to assess the profitability of ecodesigned products and compared the results of French companies with those of Quebec, concluding that the most important aspects to consider when getting involved in an ecodesign project is to focus on increased functionality of the product and to seek environmental and economic improvement on as many life cycle stages as possible.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between family control and agency costs evident in the cost of equity financing for firms and found that, before the crisis, family control is unrelated to firms' equity financing costs.
Abstract: Recent research emphasizes that corporate governance becomes critical during economic crises, when the incentives for expropriation of minority shareholders increase. Using the high-profile Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 and a sample of 566 firms from eight East Asian countries over 1996–1999, we examine the link between family control and agency costs evident in the cost of equity financing for firms. We find that, before the crisis, family control is unrelated to firms' equity financing costs, whereas, following the crisis, family control is related to a higher cost of equity. This suggests that the crisis made investors aware of the potential entrenchment of controlling families, prompting them to require a higher-equity premium from family firms. Our results are robust to various models of the cost of equity capital, additional firm- and country-level governance traits, and additional alternative explanations, including the presence of other types of large shareholders and potential survivorship bias. Our study contributes to our understanding of the corporate governance of family-controlled firms, especially during economic crises.
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TL;DR: Three methods, a numerical, a geometric and an algebraic one are proposed to automate also this last step of automated deduction of previous conjectures, strengthening of a series of conjectures from Graffiti and obtention of several new conjectures.
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TL;DR: Simulation results show that the proposed MERF method provides substantial improvements over standard RF when the random effects are non-negligible.
Abstract: This paper presents an extension of the random forest (RF) method to the case of clustered data. The proposed ‘mixed-effects random forest’ (MERF) is implemented using a standard RF algorithm within the framework of the expectation–maximization algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed MERF method provides substantial improvements over standard RF when the random effects are non-negligible. The use of the method is illustrated to predict the first-week box office revenues of movies.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Danny Miller | 133 | 512 | 71238 |
Gilbert Laporte | 128 | 730 | 62608 |
Michael Pollak | 114 | 663 | 57793 |
Yong Yu | 78 | 523 | 26956 |
Pierre Hansen | 78 | 575 | 32505 |
Jean-François Cordeau | 71 | 208 | 19310 |
Robert A. Jarrow | 65 | 356 | 24295 |
Jacques Desrosiers | 63 | 173 | 15926 |
François Soumis | 61 | 290 | 14272 |
Nenad Mladenović | 54 | 320 | 19182 |
Massimo Caccia | 52 | 389 | 16007 |
Guy Desaulniers | 51 | 242 | 8836 |
Ann Langley | 50 | 161 | 15675 |
Jean-Charles Chebat | 48 | 161 | 9062 |
Georges Dionne | 48 | 421 | 7838 |