Joint SITES - AICC4 conference 2026

8:30 - 8:45 (15min)

Shuttle

1st shuttle from Frascati Station to Villa Mondragone (Departure 08:30)

8:45 - 9:15 (30min)

Registration

Coffee

9:00 - 9:15 (15min)

Shuttle

2nd shuttle from Frascati Station to Villa Mondragone (Departure 09:00)

9:15 - 9:45 (30min)

Welcome Session

Sala degli Svizzeri

Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, Rector of Tor Vergata University - Federico Perali, University of Verona - Luccio Scandizzo, Tor Vergata University - André de Palma, CYU

9:45 - 11:15 (1h30)

FAO special session

Sala degli Svizzeri

› Introduction and overview of FAO session - George Rapsomanikis, FAO 09:45-09:50 (05min)

› Simulating Shock Impact through Trade Network Modeling - Stefano Schiavo, University of Trento 09:50-10:05 (15min)

› Weather Shocks and Dynamic Trade Adjustments: A Gravity Model Approach - Thomas Heckelei, University of Bonn 10:05-10:20 (15min)

› The Price Transmission Channel: Local Projections and Global Effects - Francesco Lucidi, University of Naples 10:20-10:35 (15min)

› From Theory to Practice: Country Case Studies on Trade Adjustments - Andrea Mastroeni, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Lena Uzelac, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Sara Savastano, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma, Italia] 10:35-10:50 (15min)

› Conclusions and ways forward - Andrea Zimmerman Zimmerman, FAO 10:55-11:15 (20min)

9:45 - 11:15 (1h30)

Transportation and development

Sala Gregorio XIII

› Road infrastructure, economic development and forest loss in the Republic of the Congo - Conrad Nunnenmacher, UNU-MERIT and University of Maastricht 09:45-10:15 (30min)

› You cannot drive my car without me: Car ownership and mode choice within couples - Luis Alberto Gomez Limberopulos, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée, Université de Strasbourg - Faculté des sciences économiques et de gestion 10:15-10:45 (30min)

› Linking ports, shipment costs and trade: evidence from Mediterranean Africa - Paolo Delle Site, Niccolò Cusano University 10:45-11:15 (30min)

11:15 - 11:45 (30min)

Coffee break

11:45 - 12:45 (1h)

Employment Guarantee: Pipe Dream or Wave of the Future?

Sala degli Svizzeri

Jean Drèze, Ranchi University, India

12:45 - 14:00 (1h15)

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Sustainable urban planing, logistics and mobility

Sala degli Svizzeri

› Impact of teleworking on daily mobility in the Paris region: Insights from a weekly GPS survey - Benoît Cornut, Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de la Région d'Ile-de-France - Dany Nguyen-Luong, Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de la Région d'Ile-de-France 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Identifying the (ir)relevancy domains of delivery modes for a range of urban logistics markets using a tractable TCO model - François Combes, Université Gustave Eiffel 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Evaluating the Impacts of the Québec–Lévis CITÉ Mobility Plan: A Dynamic Simulation with METROPOLIS2 - Ordas Criado Carlos, Department of Economics, Université Laval [Quebec] 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Adaptation of transportation to climate risks - Robin Lindsey, The University of British Columbia [Vancouver] 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Peace, conflicts and trade

Sala Gregorio XIII

› Toward a resilient transport system in the context of climate change: The case of Quebec - Moez Kilani, University of Littoral, Opal Cost 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Causal estimation of conflict and post-conflict on food security from Nigeria and Uganda - Giorgio D'Agostino, Roma Tre University 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The Role of Geoeconomics in the Geography of Geopolitical Risk Spillovers - Irene Bosco, LUMSA University 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Maturity Models for Environmental Awareness of the firm - Nathalie Picard, University of Strasbourg 15:30-16:00 (30min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:30 (2h)

Labour and migration

Sala degli Svizzeri

› Migration as an answer to climate change, pollution exposure and other environmental amenities - Filippo Amadio, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› Intrahousehold Labor Allocation, Remittances, and Selection into Migration: Evidence from Senegal - Joseph Kokouvi Djafon - Nathalie Picard, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Gender, Weather Shocks, and Labor Supply Decisions: Evidence from Urban Colombia - Natalia Labrador, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 17:30-18:00 (30min)

› Children's employment under climate change - Björn Nilsson, RITM 18:00-18:30 (30min)

16:30 - 18:30 (2h)

Technological Innovation and Renewable Energy

Sala Gregorio XIII

› Open Tools for Renewable Energy Communities: Bridging Energy Modelling and Policy - Dorsan Lepour, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 16:30-17:00 (30min)

› The Blur Notion of Optimal Designs in Urban Areas in High-Uncertainty Economic Contexts - Arthur Waeber, EPFL 17:00-17:30 (30min)

› Changing Incentives, Changing Adopters: Policy Regime Shifts and the Socioeconomic Profile of Residential Solar PV in France - Sarah Mehiyddine, BETA and Réseau de Transport d'Electricité [Paris] 17:30-18:00 (30min)

› Demand-side and technical solutions to achieve PET environmental targets in Switzerland - Soline Corre, EPFL IPESE 18:00-18:30 (30min)

18:30 - 20:30 (2h)

AperiDinner

20:30 - 20:45 (15min)

Shuttle

1st shuttle from Villa Mondragone to Frascati Station (Departure 20:30)

21:00 - 21:15 (15min)

Shuttle

2nd shuttle from Villa Mondragone to Frascati Station (Departure 21:00)

Final program