26-27 January, 2023

Lucca, Italy

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. In this workshop, we will explore 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. The workshop will be in hybrid mode, with the possibility to participate online or in presence.

You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

19 December, 2022

Lucca, Italy

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

We are glad to inform that the Young Economists of Tuscan Institution Meeting will take place at the IMT School on December 19, 2022.

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

Lucca, Italy

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

The conference on Learning, Evolution and Games (LEG2022) will take place in Lucca, Italy, on 7-9 July, 2022. The conference is intended to bring together researchers who are interested in the evolutionary foundations of economic and social behavior, evolutionary game theory, and learning in games. We welcome submissions from anyone working in these areas, both theoretical and experimental/empirical work. We aim for a small conference (less than 30 speakers) with no parallel sessions, where meaningful dialogue and exchange of ideas can take place. Depending on submissions an interactive poster session may be organized.

For more information on the workshop topics and on how to proceed with the registration to the event, visit this link.

You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

22-24 June, 2022

Lucca, Italy

Organizers: Beata Javorcik, Massimo Riccaboni, Armando Rungi

The CEPR's European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT) 2022, organised in cooperation with IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, will be held in Lucca from 22 to 24 June 2022.

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. 

For more information on the workshop topics and on how to proceed with the registration to the event, visit this link.

You can find the detailed program of the event at the following link.

25 May, 2022

Lucca, Italy

Organizers: Francesco Serti

We are pleased to announce that the third meeting between IMT and Universidad de Alicante will take place at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca on May 25, 2022. The event will be held in mixed mode (classroom 2 and online at the following link http://imt.lu/seminar).

There will be 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

Lucca, Italy

Organizers: Ennio Bilancini, Chiara Nardi

We are pleased to announce that the seventh meeting of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Network (BEEN) will be organized at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Piazza San Francesco 19) on February 18, 2022.

You can find the detailed program here.

17-18 December, 2020

Online, via Google Meet

Organizers: Sotiris Blanas, Massimo Riccaboni, Armando Rungi

Google Meet link (17 December): https://meet.google.com/kcc-rucu-pme

Google Meet link (18 December): https://meet.google.com/jcz-rgpz-esh

Day 1 of the workshop will run from 10am to 3:30pm CET.

Day 2 of the workshop will run from 10am to 4:30pm CET.

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

For any inquiries: Sotiris Blanas (sotirios.blanas@imtlucca.it), Massimo Riccaboni (massimo.riccaboni@imtlucca.it) and Armando Rungi (armando.rungi@imtlucca.it).

The event is supported by Artes 4.0 and by the IMT project "Technological Change, Soft Skills and the Future of High Skilled Jobs".

July 8, 2020, 10:20 am

Online, via Google Meet

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

Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/zeu-ptzj-kdm

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 organize 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 will (try to) address 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, the detailed program and to proceed with the registration to the event, visit this link.

14-15 September, 2018

Lucca, Italy

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

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is honored to host 7th annual Workshop on Networks in Economics and Finance (NETEF 2018) to be held on Friday Sepetember 14th and Saturday September 15th in Lucca Italy. 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 gathers researches to share and discuss advances in theoretical and empirical analysis of social and economic networks. We welcome researchers working on various topics within economics and finance, including: trade, economic development, game theory, financial contagion, systemic risk, production networks, and network formation. 

The keynote speakers of the workshop will be:

Yann Bramoullé, Aix-Marseille School of Economics & CNRS

Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge

Vasco M. Carvalho, University of Cambridge 

Stefano Battiston, University of Zurich

Website: https://netef2018.imtlucca.it/