Climate Change, Violent Conflicts and Welfare: A Multi-Scale Investigation of Causal Pathways in Different Institutional Contexts
June 3th 2025
14.00 Welcome
Raul Caruso, Department of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Damiano Palano, Director of ASERI - Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations
14.05 - 14.40 Does the Regime Type of Arms Suppliers Affect Civil Conflict? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2022
Anna Balestra, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Raul Caruso, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
14.45 - 15.20 Conflict-driven income inequality in the 21st century
Halvard Buhaug, PRIO
Hannah Frank, Trinity College Dublin
Kristina Petrova, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
15.40 - 16.15 Do illegal economies reduce local fiscal capacity?
Patricia Justino, UNU-WIDER
Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT
Martin Vanegas-Arias, Universidad EAFIT
Juan Vargas, Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin
16.20 - 16.55 El Campo Emprende: Local Effects of Rural Entrepreneurship Stefano Gagliarducci, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Sapienza University of Rome Mounu Prem, EIEF
Sara Savastano, IFAD
17.00 - 17.35 Assessing the impacts of armed conflict and climate-related disasters on vulnerability: a Machine Learning approach
Mariagrazia D'Angeli, Roma III University
Paola Vesco, PRIO and Uppsala University
17.40 - 18.15 Drought, Kinship, and Conflict in West Africa
Chiara Livorno, University of Florence
Luca Tiberti, University of Florence and Partnership for Economic Policy
June 4th 2025
9.00 - 9.35 Economic Growth and Imperialism
Giacomo Corneo, Free University of Berlin
9.40 - 10.15 Roads to Fascism? State capacity and the spread of political violence
Tommaso Celani, ECB Luca V.A. Colombo, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Michele Magnani, University of Bologna
Massimiliano G. Onorato, University of Bologna
10.30 - 11.05 Democracy in Decline: The Economic Implications of Eroding Democratic Institutions
Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Markus Eberhard, University of Nottingham
11.10 - 11.45 Retaliatory Strikes: Russian attacks on Healthcare in Ukraine
Scott Gates, PRIO and University of Oslo
Melanie Sauter, University of Mannheim
11.50 - 12.25 Direct and indirect effects of conflicts on firms: Evidence from Turkish transaction data
Michele Di Maio, Sapienza University of Rome
Michele Imbruno, Sapienza University of Rome Seda Koymen Ozer, Baskent University
Alessia Lo Turco, Polytechnic University of Marche
Daniela Maggioni, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
13.20 - 13.55 Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction
Eleonora Guarnieri, University of Bristol Ana Tur-Prats, University of California Merced.
14.00 - 14.35 Adjusting to Toxic Husbands: Normalisation of Domestic Violence by Women
Arzu Kibris, University of Warwick Eren Arbatli, Durham University Cole Williams, Durham University
14.40 - 15.15 The echo of violence: conflict at home and institutional trust abroad
Vincenzo Bove, IMT Lucca
Marco Giani, King's College London
Amélie Godefroidt, KU Leuven Davide Sansone, Sciences Po, Paris
15.20 - 15.55 Conflict and Trust Towards the Armed Forces in Europe: Shaken but not Stirred by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine(?)
Athina Economou, University of Thessaly
Christos Kollias, University of Thessaly
16.00 - 16.35 Military expenditures and the diversity of trajectories of growth in Europe
Paolo Maranzano, University of Milan - Bicocca
Sara Mombelli, Sapienza University of Rome
Mario Pianta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
Marco Stamegna, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
In collaboration with the Department of Economic Policy and ASERI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
NRRP for Mission 4, Component 2, investment 1.1. Notice 104/2022 Funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU. Climate-Conflicts – Prot. 2022RSZW83 – CUP J53D23005870008
Project of significant interest for the University "Democracy: An Investment in Welfare and Peace" line of intervention D.3.2.
