Samuel Osei Afriyie participated in the Summer School on the Economics of Climate Change, organized by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim (@unihohenheim.bsky.social), 6–25 July 2026.

📅 16–19 Aug 2026 | Nashville, TN (USA) The workshop Energy and Polarization Problems in Mathematics and Statistics – Part I will be held at Vanderbilt University. Co-organized by Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me), Edward B. Saff and Douglas Hardin.

"Credito ai consumatori e autonomia privata. Strategie regolatorie, obblighi professionali, tecniche rimediali" (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2025) di Giuseppe Versaci, ha ricevuto il riconoscimento di "eccellenza scientifica" dall'Instituto de Derecho Iberoamericanono

"What do we know about innovation in water governance?" co-authored by Andrea Vezzulli, Bruno Damásio, Cátia Miriam Costa (@cei-iscte.bsky.social ), Miguel Damásio and Sandro Mendonça

🚍 Fully funded #PhD opportunity at the University of Insubria on Sustainable Mobility & Climate Change. 📅 Start: Nov 2026 ⏳ Apply by: 26 Aug 2026 📌 Scholarship code: C42.CU-Beta.06

“When Health Risks Meet Habits: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment in Older Adults' Use of Local Public Transport in Italy” by Maggi Elena with Daniele Crotti, Mina Akhavan (U. van Amsterdam), Barbara Bonvento (U. di Padova) and Vincenzo Rebba (U. di Padova).

"Multiple pathways to a low-carbon future: Examining evidence from the BRICS+" by Samuel Osei Afriyie and Stephen Asare Abankwah (University of Ghana) published on International Journal of Renewable Energy Development. doi.org/10.61435/ijr...

Asmerilda Hitaj in Lisbon presenting "Robust bi-objective mean-CVaR portfolio selection: Applications to the Energy Sector" at Optimization 2026 Conference, held at ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 20–22/07. optimization2026.iseg.ulisboa.pt

"A PRISMA-based Systematic Review of the Gendered Impacts of the Fornero Pension Reform: Female Precarity in Italy" by Emre Kurt and Andrea Riganti published on Social Science Research Network (@ssrn.bsky.social). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Giuseppe Versaci presenting "Fairness in Data Access and Use: Critical Issues" at the 4th EU-China-Forum for Young Lawyers & Symposium on “The New Landscape of the Rule of Law in the Digital Era”, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, 17/07.

"Does Weaker Employment Protection Lower the Cost of Job Loss?" by Daniela Sonedda and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) published on Journal of Human Resources (@j-humanresources.bsky.social ). doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Daniela Sonedda in Newcastle presenting the paper "Coal Phaseout and Local Jobs" co-authored with Michel Serafinelli (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) at the RES Annual Conference (@resmedia.bsky.social), 6-7/07.

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"Commercial Activities of Early ‘Central Banks’, Geographic Expansion and Banking Correspondents: Italy, 1861–1936” by Marianna Astore and Paolo Di Martino published in Business History.

Commercial activities of early ‘central banks’, geographic expansion, and banking correspondents: Italy, 1861–1936

Recent research has put the business activities of late 19th-mid-20th-century ‘central banks’ back at the core of the analysis. This paper contributes to the debate on the Italian case, focusing on...

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Marianna Astore visiting scholar at the Paris School of Economics, Centre for Economic and Social History François-Simiand, from 2 July to 2 August 2026.

"Do Household Dynamics Shape Retirement Responses to the Fornero Pension Reform?" by Emre Kurt and Andrea Riganti published in the Jena Economics Research Papers. The paper is available at the following link: oweb.b67.uni-jena.de/Papers/jerp2...

Asmerilda Hitaj, Elisa Mastrogiacomo, Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) and Fabio Vanni (@vannifx.bsky.social) in Pisa to attend the workshop DCP26: Dynamics & Complexity Pisa (DCP26: Dynamics & Complexity - Pisa - 2026 - DCP26), 09-10/07.

Angelo Famà in Palermo presenting "From Fed speeches to signals: Embedding central bank communication for Macroeconomic Forecasting" at the JADT 2026 (18th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data), 8-10/07. jadt2026.unipa.it/%22

“Innovation Dynamics under Endogenous Influence: An Agent-Based Modeling Perspective” by Massimo Rusconi and Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) presented at ISS2026 (International Schumpeter Society) in Strasbourg, 01-04/07.

"Does Populist Redistribution Reveal the Heterogeneity It Denies? Italy’s Technocratic and Populist Pension Reforms" by Emre Kurte with Ege Asutay in the Jena Economic Research Papers (JERP) series. The paper are available at the following link: zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/servlets/MCR...

Chiara Casoli in Lisboa presenting "It's not the heat, it's the humidity! New climate indices for Europe with a multilevel factor model"

Carlo Brambilla opening the conference ICE 2026 (ice.huit.edu.vn), delivering the Opening Remarks and the keynote speech “Globalisation in Its Many Facets and Challenges” and chairing Session 6

Carlo Brambilla and Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) in Ho Chi Minh City to attend ICE 2026 (ice.huit.edu.vn) and to meet Hồ Thanh Trí, Deputy Head of Organizing Committee of the conference and Director of the International Institute (HUIT), to sign an agreement for MSc GEEM, 26/06.

“Model Trustworthiness and Modeler Responsibility in Economic Agent-Based Modeling practices: a Meta-Analytical approach” by Massimo Rusconi, Davide Secchi and Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) published in Journal of Economic Methodology, 33(1), 3–23.

Emre Kurt in Leipzig presenting "Does Populist Redistribution Reveal the Heterogeneity It Denies? Italy's Technocratic and Populist Pension Reforms"

📢 Applications are now open for the 42nd Cycle of the PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions (AY 2026–2027) 📅 Deadline: 6 July 2026 🔗 www.uninsubria.eu/work-and-stu... #PhD #Economics

Maggi Elena presenting “Safe lanes, cycling students. Infrastructure investment for sustainable commuting by bike in Italian universities” with Jurgena Myftiu and Daniele Crotti editorialexpress.com/conference/I...

📍 The second edition of the "Oxford in Varese" Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars is underway at Villa Toeplitz 🌍🎓 From June 15–19, international scholars gather in Varese to discuss entrepreneurship 🚀, innovation 💡, and future research collaborations 🤝.

Samuele Tonati in Torino presenting "Inside the Black Box: Counterfactual Explanations Across Tabular Data, Text, and Beyond", Interuniversity Research Center Scienza Nuova "Umberto Eco", 15/06.

🌿 Il 16 giugno si terrà il primo evento del progetto #RITMO, dedicato a rischio idrogeologico, cambiamenti climatici e tutela del patrimonio paesaggistico e culturale del territorio montano dell’Insubria. 📍 Rasa di Varese e Brinzio 🗓️ 16 giugno 2026

Carlo Brambilla visiting professor of the Lehrstuhl für Innovationsökonomik, Universität Hohenheim (@unihohenheim.bsky.social ) teaching Seminar course “Corporate Change and the Rise of Modern Management” (inno.uni-hohenheim.de/en/seminar_c...) in MSc in Economics, 11-12/6.

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