The Innovative Training Network “Economic Policy in Complex Environments” is pleased to announce the International EPOC Conference.

The event will take place at UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE Milan on July 15th and 17th 2024.

PROGRAMME

Day 1 - 15/07/2024 – Morning 

9.00 – 9.30      Registration - Room G.041

9.30 - 11.00    PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN1 - Room G.142

LM - Room G.242

Ivan Digel
Tackling the complexities of decentralised private  investment
flows for the energy transition: An agent-based approach for the German building sector

Emanuele Ciola
Beyond Green Preferences: Alternative Pathways to Net-Zero
Emissions in the MATRIX model

Massimiliano Rizzati (session chair)
Taking the green pill: Directed technical change, green transition
and related macro-financial risks in the MATRIX model

Martin Jaraiz
A Darwinian approach to the calibration of agent-based models:    example of calibration to FIGARO intercountry IO tables

Paul Sunil
Antifragility in the Labor Market: An Agent-Based Modeling    Approach

Mark Ebba (session chair)
Labour market frictions in net-zero transformations -  Incorporating behavioural heterogeneity into a data-driven network model

11.00 - 11.30      Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00      PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN2 - Room G.142

AB1 - Room G.242

Wolfram Barfus
Ecologically-mediated collective action in commons with tipping elements

Roberto Fei
Navigating electoral cycles and investment dynamics under climate policy uncertainty

Ivan Savin (session chair)
Conditions and pathways for a climate club to reach a more
ambitious global treaty

Jianing Chu
Modelling public health dynamics in economic systems: An agent-based approach

Luca Riccetti
A large scale data-driven ABM for the Italian economy

Michele Catalano (session chair)
Testing climate NGFS scenarios through the lens of a large scale ABM for the Italian economy

13.00 - 14.30         Lunch

 

Day 1 - 15/07/2024 – Afternoon 

14.30 – 16.00 – Room G.142
PLENARY SESSION I

Fernando VEGA-REDONDO (BOCCONI UNIVERSITY)
"Social Networks and Collective Action in Large Populations: An application to the Egyptian Arab Spring" 

 

16.00 – 16.30     Coffee break

16.30 - 18.00      PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN3 - Room G.142

AB2 - Room G.242

Daniel Torren Peraire
Social tipping points and carbon pricing: A model of low-carbon consumption

Elise Kremer
Navigating energy price shocks in the European Union:
macroeconomic consequences and policy insights from an ABM

Giovanni Bonaccorsi (session chair)
Improved electricity prices forecasts leveraging connectedness
among commodities

Jlenia Di Noia
A high resolution input-output model to assess the economic impact of floods

Martina Maglicic
The impact of extreme weather on climate belief polarisation

Andrea Di Benedetto (session chair)
Party politics and the green transition

 

18.30 - 20.00      Welcome Cocktail

 

Day 2- 16/07/2024 - Morning

9.00 - 11.00       PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN4 - Room G.142

IN1 - Room G.242

Fatma Safi
A model of public education, environmental awareness and environmental quality: An overlapping generations approach

Oleg Matvejevs
A purpose-based energy substitution structure for CGE

Dawn Parker
New complex systems modelling approaches from mathematics may aid progress on complexity-economic analysis for climate policy

Rosa van den Ende (session chair)
The exponential map between networks and allocations

Zhongli Wang
Strategic firm capacity and network effects: A computational model of R&D investment dynamics in the ICT industry

Meryem Türel
Innovation decisions, patents-trademarks under financial constraints: evidence from the Turkish manufacturing administrative data

Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas
Cross-border data flows and AI-technology adoption: Agent-based model simulations

Tsung-Hsien Li (session chair)
Consumer bankruptcy: The role of financial frictions

11.00 - 11.30  Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 – Room G.142
PLENARY SESSION II

Tatiana FILATOVA (DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
“Climate change and economic complexity”

 

13.00 - 14.30     Lunch 

14.30 – 16.00 - Room G.142

Policy maker meeting “Round Table on European Policy Challenges”

   Massimo Bordignon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
   Daniel Gros (Bocconi)
   Lucio Pench (Bruegel) 

16.00 – 16.30  Coffee break

 

Day 2- 16/07/2024 - Afternoon

16.30 - 18.30       PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN5 - Room G.142

EM1 - Room G.242

Lucia Piazza
Are home solar PV adopters more resilient? Evidence from the climate and energy crises

Claudia Sartirana
Once green, always green? An empirical analysis of firm persistence in green innovation

Miquel Bassart-I-Loré
Climate policy analysis with endogenous preference change and innovation

Elisa Grugni (session chair)
Dynamic production networks in the wake of asymmetric climate policies

Ha Chi Le
Does economic growth cause energy intensity of well-being in the very long run? Semi-parametric evidence for selected OECD countries

Surbhi Badhwar
Human capital, financial development and economic growth in low, middle and high income countries during 1994-2019: A comparative analysis using panel cointegration approach

Roberto Ippoliti
Financial constraints prediction to lead innovation policy: An application of neural networks to the Italian market

Matteo Romagnoli (session chair)
Old but gold: Population ageing and innovation incentives

20.00 – 23.00     Social Dinner: Residenza Vignale, Via Toti 2, Milan

 

Day 3- 17/07/2024 - Morning

9.30 - 11.00       PARALLEL SESSIONS 

EN6 - Room G.142

MA1 - Room G.242

Andrea Flori
Firms’ heterogeneous participation in the EU ETS market: Carbon abatement vs trading intensity

Matteo Mazzarano
Should I offset or should I plow? Voluntary carbon offsets and ETS in an evolutionary model

Luca Verginer (session chair)
Adapting to Disruptions

 

Jiri Kukacka
Wealth, cost, and misperception: Empirical estimation of three interactions

Tommaso Di Francesco
Sentiment-driven speculation in financial markets with heterogeneous beliefs: A machine learning approach

Luca Gerotto (session chair)
Irrational or asymmetrically averse to losses? A sticky expectations model for households’ macroeconomic predictions

11.00 - 11.30  Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 – Room G.142
PLENARY SESSION III

Fabrice COLLARD (TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)
"From Buzz to Bust: How Fake News Shapes the Business Cycle”

 

13.00 - 14.30  Lunch

14.30 - 16.00       PARALLEL SESSIONS 

IN2 - Room G.142

MA2 - Room G.242

Florian Wagener
Differential games of public investment

Lennart Baumgärtner
Innovation bandits: A dynamic portfolio strategy with endogenous rewards

Eleonora Priori (session chair)
Breaking the black box of the production function: An ABM accounting for time in production processes

Giulio Piccirilli
Learning from prices and optimal policy design

Francesco Ferlaino
Does the financial accelerator accelerate inequalities?

Domenico Delli Gatti (session chair)
Reversing entrepreneurial decline: Industrial policy experiments in an ABM

End of Conference


LegendaAB stands for ABM; EM stands for Empirics; EN stands for ENvironment; IN stands for INnovation; LM stands for Labour Market; MA stands for MAcroeconomics.

Note: All lecture rooms are situated in the Lanzone 14 Building – There will be signs indicating the route from the University’s main gate, Largo A. Gemelli 1.

 

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