WEHIA 2023: ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON ECONOMIC SCIENCE WITH HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, June 22nd Friday, June 23rd Saturday, June 24th

Thursday, June 22nd

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09:00-11:00 Session 1: Registration

Registration of the participants will be available at the reception desk throughout the duration of the WEHIA23.

Location: Reception Desk
10:00-11:00 Welcome with coffee and drinks

Welcome reception before the short opening ceremony.

11:00-11:30 Session 2: Opening Ceremony
  • Prof. Dr. Klavdija Kutnar, Rector of the University of Primorska
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Horvat, Dean of the Faculty of Management
  • Prof. Dr. Giulia Iori, ESHIA President
11:30-12:30 Session 3: Consumption and Account Balances in Crises: Have We Neglected Cognitive Load?

Plenary session: Tiziana Assenza

11:30
Consumption and Account Balances in Crises: Have We Neglected Cognitive Load?
12:30-13:00Coffee Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

13:00-15:00 Session 4A: Agent-based Macro Models I
Location: Lecture Room P4
13:00
Same old song: On the macroeconomic and distributional effects of leaving a low interest low interest environment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alberto Russo
13:20
Input-output analysis using large-scale payments data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kerstin Hotte
13:40
Inequality-Constrained Monetary Policy in a Financialized Economy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Federico Giri
14:00
Cultural values and macroeconomic performance (abstract)
13:00-15:00 Session 4B: Economic and Social Networks I
Location: Lecture Room P2
13:00
Inequality in economic shock exposures across the global firm-level supply network (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tobias Reisch
13:20
Connecting the Dots: How Social Networks Shape Macroeconomic Expectations (abstract)
13:40
A new method for mapping global phosphorus flows (abstract)
13:00-15:00 Session 4C: Assymetric Information, Prediction & Innovation Difussion
Location: Lecture Room P1
13:00
Speculation in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (abstract)
13:20
Green innovation policy in complex landscapes: an agent-based approach (abstract)
13:40
Estimating the loss of economic predictability: Comparing industry- and firm-level production network models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christian Diem
14:00
Prediction, Heuristics, and Excess Volatility (abstract)
15:00-16:00Lunch Break: JEIC Board Meeting

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

JEIC Board Meeting will take place in the INNolab room (Ground Floor -- to the left of the P6 auditorium).

15:00-16:00 Session 5: Springer Info Point (after the JEIC Board Meeting)

Presentation of Springer publishing. After the JEIC Board meeting. Location: main aula (ground Floor).

16:00-18:00 Session 6A: Evolutionary Game Theory
Location: Lecture Room P1
16:00
An evolutionary approach to obtain a Nash equilibrium in a coalition game (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dmitri Blueschke
16:20
The impact of sanctions and pre-release policies on recidivism (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ozlem Yasar
16:40
Power struggles and gender discrimination in the workplace (abstract)
17:00
Portfolio allocations, imitation and the equity premium puzzle in an agent-based market. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paolo Pellizzari
16:00-18:00 Session 6B: Experimental Adaptation & Learning
Location: Lecture Room P2
16:00
Learning and information diffusion in OTC markets: experiments and a computational model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giulia Iori
16:20
Experiential adaptation in repeated helping game (abstract)
PRESENTER: Žiga Velkavrh
16:40
A fundamentalists' profit's paradox? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giorgos Galanis
17:00
The role of dividends in the emergence of bubbles in financial markets: experimental evidence (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simone Alfarano
16:00-18:00 Session 6C: Energy, Climate Policy & Trade
Location: Lecture Room P3
16:00
Which climate change mitigation policy pathways are politically durable? A socio-political feasibility assessment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Teresa Lackner
16:20
Navigating electoral cycles and investment dynamics under climate policy uncertainty (abstract)
16:40
The changes in M&A transactions due to the trade dispute between China and the USA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tatjana Horvat
17:00
Income inequality in the uptake of environmentally-friendly products and the implications for energy policy (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 6D: Incentives & Rationality in Agent-based Models
Location: Lecture Room P4
16:00
How do you know you (won’t) like it if you’ve never tried it? Preference discovery and strategic bundling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alessio Muscillo
16:20
Irrational or asymmetrically averse to losses? A sticky expectations model for households' macroeconomic predictions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luca Gerotto
16:40
Trend and buybacks. Model of behavioral price expectations with endogenous firm productivity. (abstract)
17:00
Incentives and emergent properties of autonomous and decentralized organizations (abstract)
20:00-23:00 Gala dinner

Gala dinner is to take place at Grand Hotel Koper, close to the main conference venue. A desired dress code for the gala dinner is smart casual.

Location of the gala dinner

Friday, June 23rd

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09:00-11:00 Session 7A: Agent-based Macro Models II
Location: Lecture Room P4
09:00
Myopic Agents on a stable path: a neoclassical growth model with rule-based expectations and interacting agents (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michele Catalano
09:20
Inequality and transmission channels of monetary policy in a macro agent-based model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Samantha Coccia
09:40
Monetary Policy and Distribution: An agent-based perspective (abstract)
10:00
Size does matter - The optimal choice of scaling in economic agent-based models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zsolt Olah
10:20
Mind the knowledge gap! Exploring the causes of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 7B: Economic & Social Networks II

Emiliano Alvares will have an online presentation via ZOOM. The technology will be arranged prior the session for this purpose.

Location: Lecture Room P2
09:00
Diffusion analysis of inflationary shocks in the Mexican economy. A study using dynamic network analysis. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emiliano Alvarez
09:20
Natural resources on networks in conflict (abstract)
09:40
Behind The International Trade Network: The Role of Heterogeneity and Financial Frictions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elisa Grugni
09:00-11:00 Session 7C: Spatial Agent-based Models & Social Ecology
Location: Lecture Room P3
09:00
Exploitation, fast and low: modelling contagious cooperation in socio-ecological systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rocco Caferra
09:20
A multi-agent model of economic and spatial driven migration in the Australian housing market (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 7D: Financial Markets I
Location: Lecture Room P1
09:00
Investor sentiment in high frequency financial data (abstract)
09:20
Hush the rush: Short-selling bans in times of stress (abstract)
09:40
Sentiment-Driven Speculation in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Beliefs: a Machine Learning approach (abstract)
10:00
Trading strategies and Financial Performances: a simulation approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laura Mazzarino
11:00-11:30Coffee Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

11:30-12:30 Session 8: Economic Effects of Aritifical Intelligence: a Case for Agent-based Simultations

Plenary session: Herbert Dawid

11:30
Economic Effects of Aritifical Intelligence: a Case for Agent-based Simultations
13:00-14:00Lunch Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

14:00-16:00 Session 10A: Agent-based Models & Micro Simulation
Location: Lecture Room P1
14:00
The interplay between real and exchange rate market: an agent-based model approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Filippo Gusella
14:20
Exploring the effects of heterogeneity and bounded-rationality on household climate change adaptation behavior (abstract)
PRESENTER: Liz Verbeek
14:40
Mitigating Business Cycles by Counter-cyclical Capital Buffers in a Standard Bank-Firm Model: The Credit-matching Approach (abstract)
15:00
Expectation Formation in Financial Markets: Heterogeneity and Sentiment (abstract)
14:00-16:00 Session 10B: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Joel Dyer will have an online presentation via ZOOM. The technology will be arranged prior the session for this purpose.

Location: Lecture Room P2
14:00
Bayesian calibration of differentiable agent-based models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Joel Dyer
14:20
Salmon stock returns around market news (abstract)
PRESENTER: Clemens Knoppe
14:40
Reinforcement learning for combining search methods in the calibration of economic ABMs (abstract)
15:00
A novel likelihood-free Bayesian approach for calibration of agent-based models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders (abstract)
14:00-16:00 Session 10C: Agent-based Macro Models III
Location: Lecture Room P3
14:00
Carry Trade Instability and Macroprudential Policies: an Agent based SFC model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ermanno Catullo
14:20
Macroeconomic Transition Risks in a Hybrid Agent-Based Integrated Assessment Model (abstract)
14:40
Cultural values and interbank markets: a hybrid AB-SFC model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jessica Reale
14:00-16:00 Session 10D: Health, Environment & Tourism
Location: Lecture Room P4
14:00
Warming the MATRIX: A climate assessment (abstract)
14:20
IMPACT OF TOURIST VOUCHERS ON THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SLOVENIAN HOSPITALITY SECTOR (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jan Frančeškin
14:40
The Impact of Vaccine Nationalism: An Agent-based Approach (abstract)
15:00
The Global Political Economy of a Green Transition (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

Saturday, June 24th

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09:00-11:00 Session 11A: Financial Markets II

Pierre Gosselin will have an online presentation via ZOOM. The technology will be arranged prior the session for this purpose.

Location: Lecture Room P1
09:00
Financial Markets and the Real Economy: A Statistical Field Perspective on Capital Allocation and Accumulation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pierre Gosselin
09:20
A Theory of Speculative Bubbles and Crashes (abstract)
09:40
On information and interaction in financial markets (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 11B: Behavior & Expectation Formation in ABM
Location: Lecture Room P2
09:00
Monetary Policy, Stock Prices and Temporal Aggregation in a New Keynesian Model with Behavioural Expectations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Naira Kotb
09:20
A Baseline Model of Behavioral Political Cycles and Macroeconomic Fluctuations (abstract)
09:40
Reference Group Definition and the Shape of Expenditure Cascades (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 11C: Local Interaction, Self-organization & Incomplete Information
Location: Lecture Room P3
09:00
Agent based models as credible counterfactuals for economic history (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicola Visona
09:20
Incomplete Incentive Contracts and Mutual Trust: An Agent-based Model on Economics of Reciprocity (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 11D: Agent-based Macro Models IV

Presenter of the 1st paper in this session will be Zsolt Olah.

Location: Lecture Room P4
09:00
Comprehensive evaluation of borrower-based macroprudential policies with a high-resolution agent-based model (abstract)
09:20
The evaluation of demand- and supply-side policy schemes supporting first-time home buyers based on a High-Resolution Agent-based Model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nikolett Vago
09:40
Modeling sub-annual price and trade flow anomalies in agricultural markets: the dynamic agent-based model Agrimate (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kilian Kuhla
10:00
Fiscal Transfers and Common Debt in a Monetary Union: A Multi-Country Agent Based-Stock Flow Consistent Model (abstract)
11:00-11:30Coffee Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

11:30-12:30 Session 12: Shallow and Deep Methodological Individualism via Nested Agent-based Models

Plenary session: Robert Axtell

11:30
Shallow and Deep Methodological Individualism via Nested Agent-based Models
13:00-14:00Lunch Break

Served in the main aula (on the ground Floor)

14:00-14:30 Session 14: Closing Ceremony

Closing ceremony with the announcements for the WEHIA 2024.