25-27 September 2022 - Pisa (Italy)

“Model Evaluation and Causal Search: Empirical and Experimental Approaches"


Centro Congressi Le Benedettine (Pisa - Italy)

A three-day summit of talks and wonderful activities!

The goal of the workshop is to give scholars a chance to meet and discuss their work on model evaluation in economics combining different approaches such as methods for causal learning, agent-based modelling, economic experiments, metrics of goodness and completeness, models with artificial agents in markets.


Methodological, empirical, and experimental papers are all welcome.



The workshop will be hosted by the University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and features a friendly atmosphere, which allows for discussing high quality research in a convivial environment. Regular sessions will be introduced by our keynote speakers: Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University), Thomas Lux (University of Kiel), Alessio Sancetta (Royal Holloway, University of London), and Tobias Henschen (University of Cologne).

The organization will sponsor the social dinner and accommodation for the speakers. No fee is required, but all participants are warmly requested to attend all sessions.


Deadlines

June 30th: Deadline for submissions

July 20th: Notification of acceptance

For more information on the conference, please contact: workshop.pisa.2022@gmail.com


Scientific committee

Fulvio Corsi (University of Pisa)

Francesco Feri (Royal Holloway University of London)

Rachele Foschi (University of Pisa)

Alexia Gaudeul (European Commission)

Alessio Moneta (Sant’Anna School)

Raffaello Seri (University of Insubria)



Organising committee

Francesco Cordoni (University of Pisa)

Caterina Giannetti (University of Pisa)

Mario Martinoli (Sant’Anna School)



The organisers acknowledge support by the project "How good is your model? Empirical evaluation and validation of quantitative models in economics” funded by the MUR Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)

Bando 2017 – grant no. 20177FX2A7.

Keynote Speakers

Daniela Puzzello

(Indiana University)

Professor Puzzello's research and teaching interests are in economic theory, monetary economics and experimental economics. Her work focuses on the efficiency of allocations in environments with decentralised trade.

Thomas Lux

(University of Kiel)

Professor Lux's research concentrates on theoretical and empirical aspects of financial markets and monetary economics. The major focus of this research has been on behavioural, agent-based models of financial markets.

Alessio Sancetta

(Royal Holloway, University of London)

Professor Sancetta's research interests lie in financial economics and econometrics, asset pricing, market microstructures and manipulation, forecasting methods, high dimensional estimation and machine learning.

Tobias Henschen

(University of Cologne)

Professor Henschen's main research interests include general philosophy of science, philosophy of economics and causality. His research in philosophy of economics focuses on complexity and causality in agent-based computational macroeconomics.

The Venue

Centro Congressi Le Benedettine (Pisa - Italy)

Piazza S. Paolo a Ripa D'Arno, 16, 56125 Pisa PI, Italia


Day 1


The first day will start on Sunday around 17:00

Day 2


The second day will goes from 9:00 to 17.30, followed by a visit to the city and social dinner.

Day 3


The third day will goes from 9:00 to 16:00