3rd HANDS-ON AB-SFC
summer school
Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona) 9-12 September 2024
Isabel Almudi is Professor of Economics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
She is also
member of the Institute for Bio-computation and Complex Systems (BIFI) in Zaragoza.
She has been Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Columbia University (New York) and
RMIT University (Melbourne). Her research fields are evolutionary economics, innovation studies,
environmental economics and dynamic systems. She has published her work in Industrial and Corporate Change,
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, Journal of Economic Issues,
Metroeconomica, Journal of Bioeconomics and Economics of Innovation and New Technology. She is co-editor of the series Elements
in Evolutionary Economics published by CUP, and belongs to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
She is guest editor of the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. Recently has published books and chapters on the notion of Coevolution,
the work of Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter (Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics 2024 and on the Sarewitz-Nelson Rules
as a policy tool (The Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, Edward Elgar). In 2024 she has been elected
as Vice-President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.
Mauro Gallegati, Full Professor, Università Politecnica delle Marche.
After having earned his PhD in Economics in 1989 at Marche Polytechnic University with a
thesis on financial fragility under the supervision of Hyman Minsky,
he has held visiting positions, both as a scholar and as a professor at Washington
University - St. Louis, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Santa Fe Institute, Brookings Institution,
University of Technology, Sydney, Kyoto University, ETH. He has been the President of the
ESHIA Society (Economic science with heterogeneous interacting agents). His research
activity is mainly centered on complexity economics. Within this field of research he
has published scientific works with Bruce Greenwald, Joseph Stiglitz, Domenico Delli Gatti.
With Joseph Stiglitz, Gallegati has developed a theory of asymmetric information with
heterogeneous agents and its applications.
Alberto Russo is Full Professor in Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) and Distinguished Professor at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón de la Plana, Spain). His main research interests are agent-based modelling and complexity economics, macroeconomics with heterogeneous interacting agents, inequality, financial fragility, experimental economics. He published in recognized journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Policy, The World Economy. He is co-editor of three books on agent-based modelling in economics published by Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Springer. He served as guest editor for Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Economics E-Journal. He was involved in various national-level and European research projects. He has also been a member of the INET task force on macroeconomic externalities led by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Alessandro Caiani, Associate Professor at the University School for Advanced
Studies Pavia (IUSS).
Alessandro has been a Post-Doc at Università Politecnica delle Marche and Researcher
(RTD-A) at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, where he taught
Economic Policy.
His main research interests are in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Economic Simulation.
He is the scientific coordinator of the Evolutionary Economic Simulation research area of
the EAEPE. Alessandro taught courses and labs on macroeconomic AB-SFC Modeling in several
PhD Programs, international Summer Schools and workshops. He is editor of the textbook
"Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents: a Practical Guide to Agent-Based Modeling"
(Springer eds.). With Dr. Antoine Godin (AFD), he is the developer of the JMAB
(Java Macro Agent Based) Simulation Tool kit. His articles have been published on
several international peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Economic
Dynamics & Control, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Economic
Behaviour & Organization.
Eugenio Caverzasi, Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria and former Post-Doc at Università Politecnica delle Marche. Eugenio has held visiting positions at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), University of Limerick, and University of Greenwich. His main research interests are Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro Finance, and Macroeconomic Modelling, more specifically he focused on financialization and on the macroeconomic impacts of financial evolution. He has published on several international peer-reviewed journals, such Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization. Currently Eugenio teaches a course in Macroeconomics and an introductory PhD course in AB-SFC modelling at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria.
Federico Giri is a tenure track assistant professor at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
His main research interests are in Macroeconomics, monetary policy and computational methods
for macroeconomics using both DSGE and ABM models. His articles have been published on several
international peer reviewed journal such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, the
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Federico is lecturer in Macroeconomics and has been teaching courses on Computational Methods
in various PhD and Master courses.
Samantha Coccia, Post-doc in Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Bamberg. She works on the transmission channels of
monetary policy and inflation dynamics due to energy shocks based on a macroeconomic ABM approach.
Alessandro Agnesi, 3rd year PhD student at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
He is working on inflation dynamics and distribution within a macro ABM framework. He is a member of the
YSI/INET Working Group on Keynesian Economics.
Jacopo di Domenico, Post-Doc at the University of Macerata.
He worked on macro ABM, distribution and structural dynamics in his PhD dissertation discussed at the
Università Politecnica delle Marche. He has been visiting scholar at the Universitat Jaume I and joined
numerous conferences and summer schools immerged in plural environments. Jacopo's research interests are economic
growth, economic development, technological change, stagnation, and income inequality, and, of course, modelling
macroeconomic phenomena with ABMs.
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (Di.S.E.S.)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
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