AIBE Workshop 2026
Energy, Institutions & Development
Date
2-3 July, 2026
Place
Bocconi University - Milan, Italy
The 2026 Workshop of the Italian-Brazilian Economics Association (AIBE) was organized jointly with LEAP-Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies at Bocconi University and FGV Ceri in Rio de Janeiro. This year's keynote speaker was Rodrigo Soares (INSPER).
We workshop showcased leading working papers on various topics broadly connected to the conference theme and from researchers at any career stage, including Brazilians based in Italy, Italians interested in the Brazilian context and Italians and Brazilians based in third countries.
The conference also included a High-level Policy Session on "Energy Transition in Brazil and Italy", featuring Edmar L.F. de Almeida (PUC-Rio), Lorenzo Parola (Parola Associati) and Joisa C. Dutra Saraiva (FGV-CERI).
Thanks to the generous support of ENEL Foundation, Parola Associati and the University of Milano-Bicocca, among others, AIBE could provide partial funding for travel and accommodation to a number of accepted paper-presenters.
Bio
Rodrigo R. Soares is Leman Foundation professor of economics at INSPER in São Paulo. Previously, Rodrigo held positions at Columbia University, FGV-EESP and PUC-Rio. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago (2002) and holds a BA from UFMG. He has broad research interests spanning health and demographic economics, economics of crime, labour & development, political economy and economic history.
Scientific Committee
- •Rafael Schiozer, EAESP-FGV (São Paulo)
- •Tito Cordella, SAIS Europe (Bologna)
- •Alan de Gennaro, EAESP-FGV (São Paulo)
- •Fulvio Fontini, University of Salento (Lecce)
- •Raphael Corbi, University of São Paulo (São Paulo)
- •Diogo G. Britto, Bocconi University (Milan)
- •Andrea Ugolini, Università di Milano-Bicocca (Milan)
- •Joisa Dutra, FGV-CERI (Rio de Janeiro)
- •Fernando Aiube, UERJ (Rio de Janeiro)
- •Chiara Falco, University of Milan (Milan)
Topics
- •AIBE welcomed submissions from all areas of economics and finance under the Workshop’s broad theme of “Resources, Institutions and Development”.
- •We invited 14 papers in total. Each was assigned a discussant.
- •We particularly welcomed “general interest” contributions – empirical or theoretical – that we thought could appeal to a broad audience of economists and policy-makers.
- •We also devoted several contributed sessions to energy and the environment, the cross-cutting topics of this year's edition of the AIBE Workshop.
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