Program MDEF 2026
Location: Department of Economics, via Saffi n.42, URBINO - Aula Magna
Wednesday, September 09
From 19:30 Welcome Party at Basili Bar (Urbino main square Piazza della Repubblica)
Thursday, September 10
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Opening
Session #1 - 09:10–10:50
09:10
Marcello Galeotti – Università degli Studi di Firenze
Prescribing, litigation, and resistance: a co-evolutionary game of physicians, patients, and bacteria (with A. Antoci, D. Delpini and P. Russu)
09:30
Stefano Bosi – University of Evry - Paris-Saclay
Pandemics in the age of chaos engineers (with D. Desmarchelier and N. S. Pham)
09:50
Daniela Visetti – University of Milano-Bicocca
An epidemiological evolutionary game: general framework (with F. Cavalli, A. Naimzada and M. Pireddu)
10:10
Fausto Cavalli – University of Milano-Bicocca
An epidemiological evolutionary game: the role of uncertainty (with A. Naimzada, M. Pireddu and D. Visetti)
10:30
Luca Gori – Università di Pisa
Economic development in an environmental growth model with emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (with R. Boucekkine and M. Sodini)
10:50–11:20 Coffee Break
Session #2 - 11:20–13:00
11:20
Andrea Bacchiocchi – Università degli Studi di Urbino
The Resilience Dividend: A Tractable Climate-Economy Model (with F. Favaretto and F. Tramontana)
11:40
Paulo Medeiros – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Who Buys in a Fire Sale? Funding Heterogeneity and Deleveraging Dynamics
12:00
Hiroki Murakami – Chuo University
Stochastic perturbations of limit cycles in nonlinear business cycle models: Kaldor's theory revisited
12:20
AnnaMaria Variato – Università di Bergamo
Beyond IS-LM: Financial Instability, Persistence, and the Search for a Medium-Run Macrodynamics
12:40
Ugo Merlone – Università degli Studi di Torino
Incentive Alignment in Dynamical Inspection Game (with A. Dal Forno)
13:00–15:00 Lunch at University Guest House
Session #3 - 15:00–16:20
15:00
Mauro Maria Baldi – Università degli Studi di Macerata
Toward Healthy Longevity: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges (with R. Coppier and E. Michetti)
15:20
Alberto Adrego Pinto – University of Porto
Mean-variance payoff applied to the Cournot games
15:40
Anna Połeć – Jagiellonian University
Delay Solow model with capital to labor ratio dependent technology (with A. Krawiec and T. Tokarski)
16:00
Joachim Jungeilges – University of Agder
Quantum duopoly dynamics in a noisy environment (with T. Perevalova)
16:20–16:50 Coffee Break
Session #4 - 16:50–18:10
16:50
Beatrice Venturi – University of Cagliari
Policy-Induced Wedges and Sunspot Indeterminacy in a Resource-Based Model (with M. Desogus)
17:10
Ingrid Kubin – WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
On the Synchronization and Transmission of International Business Cycles (with S. Bougheas and P. Commendatore)
17:30
Adam Krawiec – Jagiellonian University
The Kaldor-Kalecki model of business cycle with physical and human capitals (with A. Połeć and A. Matsumoto)
17:50
Gian Italo Bischi – Urbino University
Richard Goodwin and the spread of nonlinear economic dynamics in Italy (with A. Naimzada and F. Tramontana)
19:00 Dinner at University Guest House
21:00–22:30 Music Concert
Friday, September 11
11 September 2026
Session #5 - 09:00–10:40
09:00
Giovanni Campisi – Università Politecnica delle Marche
Two-Sided Macroprudential Regulation and Virtual Equilibria in a Banking Loan Duopoly (with M. Fandi Ansori and S. Brianzoni)
09:20
Pasquale Commendatore – Università di Napoli Federico II
Higher Education, Growth and Cycles: the Role of Financial Frictions (with U. Merlone)
09:40
Michal Demetrian – Comenius University in Bratislava
Limit Cycles in a Two Dimensional Monetary Policy Model (with R. Zimka and E. Zimková)
10:00
Alessandro Bellocchi – Università degli Studi di Urbino
When Does Scarcity Bind? Compliance Design in Land-Use Policy (with E. Saltari and G. Travaglini)
10:20
Simone Landini – IRES Piemonte
Introducing serial correlation and dynamic default risk in the Basel version of the Merton-Vasicek model: an empirical calibration on regional-sectoral Italian data (with S. Casellina, M. Uberti and R. Scorolli)
10:40–11:10 Coffee Break
Session #6 - 11:10–12:50
11:10
Daniele Tavani – Colorado State University
Growth, Distribution, and the Political Economy of Climate Policy (with M. Dávila-Fernández and L. Petach)
11:30
Tatiana Perevalova – Indipendent researcher
Noise-induced transitions in a political economy climate change model (with M. Dávila-Fernández and J. Jungeilges)
11:50
Marina Pireddu – University of Milano-Bicocca
Entry games in oligopolies within an evolutionary framework with environmental control under uncertainty (with F. Cavalli and A. Naimzada)
12:10
Jan Wenzelburger – Kaiserslautern University
On the Learnability of MSV Solutions (with F. Grassetti)
12:30
Mauro Sodini – Università di Napoli Federico II
Distributional Conflict, Political Influence, and Environmental Policy in a model with Renewable Resources (with A. Antoci and E. Ticci)
12:50–14:50 Lunch at University Guest House
Session #7 - 14:50–16:30
14:50
Antonio Di Bari – Università degli Studi della Calabria
A real option game model to valuate economic and social benefits in PPP projects (with M. Biancardi and G. Villani)
15:10
Grégoire Noël – Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
A Multiplier-Accelerator Growth Cycle
15:30
Akio Matsumoto – Chuo University
Hopf Bifurcation and Endogenous Cycle in a Ramsey Growth Model with Delayed Capital Accumulation
15:50
Sarah Mignot – Bamberg University
Insights from a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous expectations: How do inflation and output expectations influence macroeconomic dynamics?
16:10
Thomas Zoerner – Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
Endogenous Collateral Constraints and Speculative Credit Dynamics
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
Session #8 - 17:00–18:20
17:00
Ilaria Foroni – University of Milano-Bicocca
Nearest-Branch Selection and Iterated Function Systems in a Multivalued Cobweb Model (with P. Commendatore and L. Gardini)
17:20
Yoshihiko Tada – University of Toyama
Partially Endogenous State Space Expansion Model of Growing Awareness
17:40
Iryna Sushko – Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine
On 2D discontinuous maps arising in economic modeling: from cycles to chaos through weird quasiperiodic attractors (with F. Tramontana and V. Avrutin)
18:00
Frank Westerhoff – Bamberg University
Effects of a two-tier transaction tax system in speculative markets (with L. Gardini, D. Radi, I. Sushko and T. Tichy)
20:00 Social Dinner in honour of Marcello Galeotti
Saturday, September 12
12 September 2026
Session #9 - 09:00–10:40
09:00
Andrea Di Liddo – Università di Foggia
On Cooperative Agreements in Dynamic Games (with A. Caravaggio and A. Martiradonna)
09:20
Angela Martiradonna – Università di Foggia
Computational Approaches to Dynamic Nash Bargaining with Endogenous Threat Points (with A. Caravaggio and A. Di Liddo)
09:40
Simone Baricca – Università di Venezia
Strategic Substitutability under Price Risk (with L. Cerboni Baiardi)
10:00
Michael Kopel – University of Graz
Bargaining power weights are not portable (with A. Garashli and T. Wakabayashi)
10:20
Fabio Lamantia – Università degli Studi di Catania
Discrete-Time Dynamics of Indirect Reciprocity: The Role of Punishment (with A. Panchuk and M. Pezzino)
10:40–11:10 Coffee Break
Session #10 - 11:10–12:50
11:10
Simone Marsiglio – Università di Pisa
Financial Literacy, Return on Saving, and Poverty Traps (with R. Calcagno and L. Gordi)
11:30
Andrea Caravaggio – Università di Siena
Nonlinear dynamics of higher education participation under social influence and endogenous returns (with M. Catola and S. Leoni)
11:50
Anastasiia Panchuk – Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine
Bifurcation structures for a 1D piecewise linear map with two kink points and two discontinuities (with T. Perevalova)
12:10
Arianna Dal Forno – Università del Molise
Intrinsic motivation and performance dynamics (with U. Merlone)
12:30
Fabio Privileggi – Università di Torino
Financial Literacy, Shock Realizations and Macroeconomic Outcomes (with R. Calcagno and S. Marsiglio)
12:50 Closing Address
13:00 Lunch at University Guest House