Students must attend seminars in English and in Italian.
Students are invited to attend some seminars in English and some seminars in Italian chosen from the list of seminars herewith. Hours can be gained only if offered as extra hours compared to regular lessons.
Attendance will be checked through identification and signature for seminars in presence.
2 credits for Seminars and 1 credit for Seminario di attualità economica will be assigned to second-year students upon delivery of one final short essay for each of the above activities (about 2500 characters - 2 pages each) on one of the topics covered in the seminars and one of the topics covered in seminari di attualità economica, together with a list of all the seminars attended.
The documents need to be sent to Professor Elettra Agliardi, Programme Director, and also to cdlm.resd@unibo.it only in exam periods (January, April, May to July, early September, since credits will be recorded during exam sessions).
The evaluation will be on a pass/fail basis.
No application or registration is required for seminars organized by RESD.
For seminars held by external bodies refer to the relative websites.
All interested students are welcome.
The page will be updated during the year with new seminars.
Seminars are offered mainly in presence . Some seminars may be offered online. Online attendance will be checked through identification and screenshots to be provided by the students themselves. Besides doing what is indicated above on how to have credits registered, if you attend online, remember to:
-screenshot not only the speaker's presentation, but also the list of participants where your name is displayed, as to prove you joined the seminar;
-submit a short abstract for each seminar attended online.
Speaker: Professor Alexander Wagner
Title: "Nature risks and opportunities from the perspective of finance"
Speaker: Professor Xepapadeas
Title: "Managing the Global Commons: Taxes, Bonds, and the Equivalence Between Fiscal and Financial Instruments"
Speaker: Professor Aude Marie Pommeret
Title: "Critical Raw Materials: From an Energy Transition Issue to a Sovereignty Issue"
Credits for Seminars in English will be granted to attending students
Preparing and presenting a poster in the workshop poster session will grant students 2 credits for Seminars in English and 1 credit for Seminario di attualità economica in Italian (second-year mandatory activities)
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6 October 2026 | 4 - 7 pm | room Alberti 3
Speaker: Professor Xepapadeas
Title: "Investing in Resilience: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Extreme Event Protection"
Credits for Seminars in English will be granted to attending students
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Speaker: Professor Xepapadeas
Title: "Climate change policies in practice: are we succeeding?"
Credits for Seminars in English will be granted to attending students
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Speaker: Professor Matias Mayor Fernandez – University of Oviedo (Spain)
Date and time: 7 May 2026 | 4–6 pm
Venue: Alberti 5
Credits will be provided.
Speaker: Professor James Guthrie – Macquarie University (Australia)
Date and time: 19 November 2025 | 1–3 pm
Venue: Alberti 5
Credits will be given.
Understanding the dynamics of temperature shocks and climate change through conceptual and analytical lenses.
Speaker: Professor Christian Traeger – University of Oslo (Norway)
Date and time: 6 November 2025 | 02:30–03:30 PM CEST
Venue: Online seminar (via Microsoft Teams)
Deciphering public attention and attitudes to emerging climate engineering technologies using social data science and Artificial Intelligence.
Speaker: Professor Ramit Debnath – University of Cambridge (UK)
Date and time: 22 September 2025 | 4–6.30 pm
Venue: Room Alberti 1
Credits will be given for in-person attendance.
Credits will be given for attendance online. In order to get the credits recognized, students shall send a copy of the registration email and a brief summary (15 lines max) of the seminar content to the Degree Director and Programme Coordinator upon completion of the 15 hours overall.
Date and time: 25 June 2026 | 12.30 - 2 PM
Speaker: Professor Lorenzo Casprini (University of Bologna)
Title: Water and Migration: a Critical Nexus
Speaker: Professor Elettra Agliardi (University of Bologna)
Title: Optimal management of biodiversity preservation under uncertainty and ambiguity aversion
Teams Link: Join the meeting now
Date and time: 23 March 2026 | 4:00 PM
Speaker: Levi Crews, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA
Moderator: Conor Wals, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School
Title: Agriculture, Trade, and Global Water Use
Registration: Register
Date and time: 19 March 2026 | 12.30 - 2 PM
Speaker: Luca Taschini, University of Edinburgh
Title: Mind the Emission Gap: Firm-Level Policy Stringency Matters for Emission Reductions in the EU ETS
Teams Meeting ID: 378 426 811 295 88
Passcode: ge336oQ6
Date and time: 19 March 2026 | 12.30 - 2 PM
Speaker: Claudia Ranocchia, Tilburg University
Title: Who Owns the Circular Loop? Competition Between Generalist Peer-to-Peer Platforms and Incumbent Resale Models
Teams Meeting ID: 378 426 811 295 88
Passcode: ge336oQ6
Date and time: 11 December 2025 | 5 PM
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi (University of Chicago) presents:
Weathering the Storm: Supply Chains and Climate Risk
Date and time: 4 December 2025 | 6.30 PM
Speaker: Philippe Aghion (Professor at College de France and the London School of Economics; Nobel Prize in Economics, 2025)
Title: Should We Fear AI?
Link: https://riverside.fm/studio/markuss-studio-Y8ivm
Credits provided.
Date and time: 13 November 2025 | 5 PM
Sabrina Eisenbarth (University of St Gallen) presents:
Carbon leakage resulting land-based climate change mitigation measures
Date and time: 30 October 2025 | 5 PM
Francesco Trebbi (UC Berkeley and CEPR) presents:
Climate Politics in the United States
Date and time: 2 October 2025 | 5 PM
Wei Xiang (University of Michigan) presents:
Clean Growth and Environmental Policies in the Global Economy
More information and recordings:
https://cepr.org/events/event-series/virtual-seminar-climate-economics
Date and time: 9 September 2025 | 9 AM - 6 PM
Venue: Room Alberti 7
No credits will be given for attendance.
Marcin Kacperczyk will present his paper with Patrick Bolton and Tianyu Wang on the link between inflation and the carbon premium of U.S. listed companies, especially in the presence of energy price inflation.
Speaker: Marcin Kacperczyk
Professor of Finance, Imperial College London
Moderator: Stephen G. Cecchetti
Rosen Family Chair in International Finance, Brandeis University
Date and time: 8 September 2025 | 6:15 PM
Format: Online
Registration: REGISTER
Credits will be given for attendance. In order to get the credits recognized, students shall send a copy of the registration email and a brief summary (15 lines max) of the seminar content to the Degree Director and Programme Coordinator.
Date and time: 26 February 2026 | 5.30 PM
Venue: Sala UNIRIMINI SPA - Piazza Malatesta, 30 - Rimini
Speaker: Professor Antonello Pasini - CNR
Title: La crisi climatica recente e le sue tante sfide
Credits will be given for in-presence attendance.
Organizer: CMCC Foundation
Date and time: 28 November 2025 | 3 - 4.30 PM
Format: Online
Note to all English-speakers: the webinar will be held in Italian with automatic subtitles available.
Registration: Registration
Credits will be given for online attendance.
Speaker: Luca Mercalli
Date and time: 10 October 2025 | 10 AM - 12 PM
Venue: Room Alberti 7
Credits will be given for in-presence attendance.
How can we help you: Notices about logistics and organisational aspects concerning your degree programme, general information on admissions, exams, course timetable, study plan and graduation.
Contact person's name for the office Ilaria Tamburini
E-mail cdlm.resd@unibo.it
Phone +39 0541 434119 Orario telefonico
Address Via Angherà, 22 - Rimini Orario apertura al pubblico
Other information cdlm.resd@unibo.it
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