August 31 - September 4, 2025

Organizers: Sibilla Di Guida

This interdisciplinary conference will cover contribution on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making. Keynote speakers: Pietro Pietrini (IMT School for Advanced Studies), Wim De Neys (Université de Paris - Sorbonne), Grace Lordan (The London School of Economics), Maggie Toplak (York University).  

29-31 August, 2025

Organizers: Sibilla Di Guida

Taught by Dirk Wulff (Max Planck) and Zak Hussain (University of Basel). The course introduces the use of open large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. In short lectures, participants will learn about key concepts (e.g., the attention mechanism, feature extraction, and text generation) and practical examples from behavioral science. 

31 March, 2025

Organizers: Sibilla Di Guida, Massimo Riccaboni

Researchers from IMT, involved with the Tuscany Health Ecosystem initiatives, along with researchers from the Danish Center for Health Economics (DaCHE) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense, presented their work exploring the healthcare system management and utilization in Italy and Denmark. The workshop also explored the impact of healthcare policies on social outcomes and economic efficiency of healthcare systems. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

25 November, 2024

Organizers: Sibilla Di Guida

The workshop featured researchers' and students' presentations, and a seminar by guest speaker Prof. Jean Robert Tyran, from the University of Vienna, titled  "Sorting Fact from Fiction when Reasoning is Motivated". You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

27 November, 2023

Organizers: Giorgio Gnecco, Francesco Biancalani

The 14th edition of EAI INTETAIN focused on the several ways in which modern technologies inspired by game science are changing how humanity interacts with reality. The conference featured innovative contributions regarding methods (machine learning, movement analysis, etc.), computer-based systems (architectures, software, algorithms, etc.), and devices (digital cameras, smartphones, etc.) that enhance intelligent human interaction or entertainment experience. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

26-27 January, 2023

Organizers: Massimo Riccaboni, Armando Rungi, Luigi Longo, Antonio Deisderio

Social media platforms provide a significant channel for people to connect, share opinions, and spread and process information. How we interact with each other leads to large-scale phenomena, and recently financial markets have been repeatedly influenced by viral social media trends. These online financial coordinated operations receive massive attention from the media, financial stakeholders, and the academic community. This workshop explored the key ingredients leading the stock to go viral and how we can model and early detect online coordination that has a social and practical impact. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

19 December, 2022

Organizers: Andrea Albertazzi, Francesco Biancalani, Ennio Bilancini, Massimo Riccaboni,
Pietro Guarnieri, Martina Iori, Alessio Muscillo, Eugenio Vicario

The YETI meeting is a joint initiative between the Departments of Economics of the IMT School, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, University of Florence, University of Pisa, and University of Siena. The event aims at stimulating discussion and socialization among young researchers from the Departments of these Institutions. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

07-09 July, 2022

Organizers: Itai Arieli, Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Yuval Heller, Christoph Kuzmics,
Erik Mohlin, Heinrich Nax, Alexandros Rigos, Matthijs van Veelen

The conference brought together researchers who are interested in the evolutionary foundations of economic and social behavior, evolutionary game theory, and learning in games. It featured presentation on both theoretical and experimental/empirical work. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

22-24 June, 2022

Organizers: Beata Javorcik, Massimo Riccaboni, Armando Rungi

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It provides a unique opportunity to discuss trade-related research in a relaxed atmosphere. You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

25 May, 2022

Organizers: Francesco Serti

The workshop featured an introduction by Prof. Anna Sanz-De-Galdeano (UA) and Prof. Ennio Bilancini on the collaboration between the two institutions for Doctoral Theses with International Joint Supervision and Double Degree, followed by two presentation:

• Gender Asymmetries in Peer Effects at the Workplace - by Prof. Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Universidad de Alicante

• The psychological effect of a math signal - by Prof. Pedro Albarran, Universidad de Alicante

You can find more information at the following link

18 February, 2022

Organizers: Ennio Bilancini, Chiara Nardi

You can find the detailed program here.

17-18 December, 2020

Organizers: Sotiris Blanas, Massimo Riccaboni, Armando Rungi

The detailed programme can be found here.

List of Speakers

Keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):

Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Oxford University

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University

John Van Reenen, LSE and MIT

Michael Wooldridge, Oxford University and Alan Turing Institute

Presentations (in alphabetical order):

Arash Ajoudani, Italian Institute of Technology

Sotiris Blanas, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Francesco Bossi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Marco Capasso, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education

Italo Colantone, Bocconi University

Francesco del Prato, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and KU Leuven

Dimitris Exadaktylos, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Marco Grazzi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Andrew Green, OECD Future of Work Team

Dario Guarascio, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

David Hémous, University of Zurich

Sara Landi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

July 8, 2020

Organizers: Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi, Kristof De Witte, Massimo Riccaboni

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) and the Leuven Economics of Education Research Center of KU Leuven (Belgium) in collaboration with ARTES 4.0 jointly organized a webinar series on data science techniques for impact and policy evaluation.

In recent years, the ability of machines to solve increasingly more complex tasks has grown exponentially. The availability of learning algorithms that deal with tasks such as facial and voice recognition, automatic driving, and fraud detection (among the others) makes the various applications of artificial intelligence and data science a hot topic not just in the specialised literature but also in the media outlets. However, the bulk of data science studies resolves in application of new technologies to predictive tasks. The goal of this webinar series is to explore how data science techniques can be used and adapted to assess the impact of natural events, public policies, private interventions and so on. Ultimately the question that our speakers addressed is: can the application of new data science tools in a causal perspective boost our understanding of the world and improve the way policy-makers and stakeholders design their interventions?

Speakers

Fabrizia Mealli, University of Florence and Florence Center for Data Science

Chris Van Klaveren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Massimo Riccaboni, IMT School

Rachel C. Nethery, Harvard University

Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi, IMT School and KU Leuven

For more information on the webinar topics and the detailed program, visit this link.

14-15 September, 2018

Lucca, Italy

Organizers: Massimo Riccaboni, Kenan Huremović, Sara Olson, Paolo Zacchia

This workshop is organized jointly with CIRANO and the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and builds on the successful CIRANO Workshops on Networks in Trade and Finance that have taken place in Montreal and Fayetteville, Arkansas over the last six years. The workshop gathered researches to share and discuss advances in theoretical and empirical analysis of social and economic networks. 

The keynote speakers of the workshop were:

Yann Bramoullé, Aix-Marseille School of Economics & CNRS

Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge

Vasco M. Carvalho, University of Cambridge 

Stefano Battiston, University of Zurich

For more information on the webinar topics and the detailed program, visit this link.