Program
2024 COMO SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME
SUNDAY, JUNE 23
18.30–20.30: Welcome drinks and registration
Villa del Grumello, Serra (greenhouse)
MONDAY, JUNE 24
9.00–10.15: LECTURE 1
Christopher Clarke “Does econometrics rest on an unwarranted assumption (the principle of the common cause)?”
11.00–12.30: Students’ presentations: 3 papers, 30 minutes each
- Anna-Katharina Kothe “Why do (some) economists shun (some forms of) simulation? Exploring answers through a representational risk framework”
- Gustav Alexandrie “A psychophysical foundation for individual and social discounting”
- Korbinian Friedl “A Condorcet-like theorem for prediction markets”
12.30–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–15.00: Tutorials: an invited speaker discusses with a student her/his paper in a one-to-one discussion
15.00–16.15: LECTURE 2
Magdalena Małecka “Values in economic research: perspectives from philosophy of science”
16.45–17.45: Students’ presentations: 2 papers
- Lorenzo Gagliardi “’Keep an eye on the scales, they like to change’: accidental priming effects in conspiracy studies”
- Daniel Zarama Rojas “Of the vices behind biases – A virtue epistemology perspective on nudges”
From 18.00: Social activity
Guided tour of Como and light dinner at Pronobis
TUESDAY JUNE 25
9.00–10.15: LECTURE 3
Judith Favereau “The paradoxes of poverty: history and methodology of poverty measurement”
11.00–12.30: Students’ presentations: 3 papers
- Caroline Falkman Olsson “Aversion to inequality and social risk: an experimental approach”
- María Gutiérrez Ruan “Enhancing the understanding of laboratory field experiments: perspectives from the top and bottom”
- Cristian Larroulet-Philippi “Quantifying the human: values in measurement or measuring value?”
12.30–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–15.00: Tutorials
15.00–16.15: LECTURE 4
Remco Heesen “Modelling and evaluating the credit economy in science”
16.15–16.45: Students’ presentations: 1 paper
- Vita Kudryavtseva “The making of a decision: Ellsberg variations”
From 17.20: Social activity
Guided tour of Brunate and aperitivo at Hotel Bellavista
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
9.00–10.15: LECTURE 5
Jean Baccelli “The social choice theory of spurious unanimity”
11.00–12.30: Students’ presentations: 3 papers
- Eva Jacob “Van Parijs versus Rawls: the (im)possible Rawlsian justification of UBI”
- Raphael Oliveira “Impartial observer theorem with ambiguity”
- Rafaela Schinner “The rationality of team reasoning”
12.30–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–15.00: Tutorials
15.00–16.15: LECTURE 6
Natalie Gold “Advances in behavioural public policy: new frameworks and old debates”
16.45–17.45: Students’ presentations: 2 papers
- Angela Barnes “Nudging and Meta Choice Architecture”
- Sebastiano Munini “Moral and social nudges for promoting cooperation in wicked social dilemmas: a theoretical and experimental investigation on waste sorting behavior”
17.45–20.00: Free time
From 20.00, social activity:
Faculty: dinner at Canottieri Lario;
Students: dinner at Pizzeria Fratelli Coppola
THURSDAY, JUNE 27
9.00–10.15: LECTURE 7
Mary Morgan “What travels in, or with, a model”
11.00–12.30: Students’ presentations: 3 papers
- Murat Bakeev “The requirement of theoretical tractability as a challenge for model transfer”
- Jakob Ortmann “Models as memes? Understanding and hedging performativity of science”
- Mathieu Guigourez “Individual commitments under normative uncertainty: can we gamble on climate change?”
12.30–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–15.00: Tutorials
15.00–16.15: LECTURE 8
Raffaello Seri “Equifinality and model selection in econometrics”
16.45–18.15: Students’ presentations: 3 papers
- Sebastian Zezulka “Risk scores as statistical fatalism”
- Connor Chung “The history of energy’s future: early predictive modelling at the international energy agency”
- Lior Nissim Grinman “The appropriateness-in-context intuition: rethinking preferences in economics”
18.15–20.00: Free time
20.00–22.00: Dinner at Villa del Grumello
FRIDAY, JUNE 28
9.00–10.15: LECTURE 9
Anna Alexandrova “Philosophy of economics after the empirical turn”
11.00–12.30: Students’ presentations: 3 papers
- Samuel De-La-Cruz-Solal “Co-design of behavioural public policies: can expert-citizens be both ‘experts’ and ‘citizens’?”
- Mikhail Volkov “Realism about economics: ontic structural?”
- Isaac Kean “Neo-Robbensianism and the market lens”
12.30–14.00: Lunch break
14.00–14.30: End-of-school meeting