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).

Below the forthcoming events:

• On the 1^st of December, Prof. 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, Prof. Geoffrey M. Heal (Columbia University) will present “The Political Economy of Responses to COVID-19 in the USA”
• On the 14^th of December, Prof. Gijsbert Zwart (University of Groningen), will present “Optimal regulation of energy network expansion when costs are stochastic”
• On the 21^st of January, Prof. Richard Tol (University of Sussex and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will present "The economic impact of climate and weather"
• On the 8^th of February, Prof. Dirk Bergemann (Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University) will present “The economics of social data”
• On the 18^th of February, Prof. Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics) will present “The welfare cost of ignoring the beta”
• On the 11^th  of March, Prof. Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University and University of Amsterdam) will present "Gathering political support for green tax reform " 
• On the 18^th of March, Prof. Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg School of Economics and Management) will present "Special Interest Climate Policy"
• On the 8^th of April, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri (Athens University of Economics and Business) will present "The Economic Case for a Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic"

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.

Image Credits - Road to IAERE 2021 "Proxies for the Past" by Jill Pelto