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The Second International HEDGE (Health, Environment, Development and Growth Economics: New Perspective and Challenges) Conference will be held at the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) from February 5th to February 7th.
This conference aims to establish a forum to discuss new approaches, methods and techniques to address the policy challenges induced by the feedback effects among economic, environmental and health outcomes, by relying on a broad variety of microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to characterize the dynamic nature of the economy-environment-health relation.
Keynote speakers are:
- Raouf Boucekkine (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
- Oded Galor (Brown University)
- Anastasios Xepapadeas (Athens University of Economics and Business)
The conference wishes to establish a forum to discuss new approaches, methods and techniques to address the policy challenges induced by the feedback effects among economic, environmental and health outcomes. Such challenges involve the design of incentive mechanisms at the single individual level, understanding how individual decisions may tip in generating a cascade of social effects, devising mechanisms to prevent social processes to translate in undesirable aggregate outcomes, and understanding how public policy by affecting aggregate outcomes may induce individuals to undertake socially desirable actions. Addressing these challenges requires to adopt a variety of microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches to characterize the dynamic nature of the economy-environment-health relation, along with mixing traditional economic theory with recent development in other fields such as environmental and climate sciences, epidemiology, psychology and complexity.
Theoretical and empirical contributions in any area of economic growth and development, environmental economics and health economics are welcome, while those addressing the following topics are particularly encouraged:
- Sustainable growth and development
- Climate change and environmental economics
- Economic epidemiology and public health
- Social interactions and social norms
- Individual behavior and strategic interactions
- Complexity and uncertainty
A variety of methodological approaches is welcome, particularly the following:
- Dynamic optimization and optimal control
- Overlapping generation models
- Dynamic games and mean-field games
- Agent-based modeling
- Computable general equilibrium models
- Integrated assessment models
- Mathematical and economic epidemiology
- Artificial intelligence methods
Submissions (preferably full papers) should be sent by December 8th to: hedge.conference.2026@gmail.com
via Ridolfi 10
56124 Pisa , Italie
