Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and University of Brescia, in collaboration with the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE), European University Institute, University of Siena, Department of Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Milan are glad to present the Winter Series “Economic Modelling Seminars”. The series aims at bringing together academics of excellence, discussing economics research around prominent themes.

The seminars will be moderated by Professor Sergio Vergalli (University of Brescia, IAERE President and Head of Economics – 2030 Agenda research area in FEEM).

The first four events will be the followings:

• On the 1^st of December, Professor Robert S. Pindyck (MIT Sloan School of Management) will present “Welfare Costs of Catastrophes: Lost Consumption and Lost Lives”
• On the 11^th of December, Professor Geoffrey M. Heal (Columbia University) will present “The Political Economy of Responses to COVID-19 in the USA”
• On the 14^th of December, Professor Gijsbert Zwart (University of Groningen), will present “Optimal regulation of energy network expansion when costs are stochastic”
• On February 2021, Professor Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) will present “The economics of social data”.

All the seminars will be held online. Questions about the seminars and requests for information should be directed to Ilenia Gaia Romani, IAERE Secretary General, at iaere@iaere.org

Organizing Committee: Sergio Vergalli, Marta Castellini, Ilenia Gaia Romani