WEHIA & EC 2026
June 15-17, Ancona, Italy
XXX Annual Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents and Econophysics Colloquium 2026
WEHIA & EC 2026 represents a unique opportunity to present and discuss the latest research on various aspects of the economy as a complex system made up of heterogeneous interacting agents. The Workshop is intended to foster diversity in the approach and in the methodology used to analyze economic issues.
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Thanks to everyone who registered for WEHIA & EC 2026. See you soon in Ancona!
Keynotes
“30 Years of WEHIA in Retrospect: An intellectual map”
Domenico Delli Gatti
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
“30 years of WEHIA: The Good, the Bad and the Emergent”
Round Table:
Silvano Cincotti, Tiziana Di Matteo, Mauro Gallegati (chair), Alan Kirman, Thomas Lux
“Policy” – Round Table
Round Table:
Michele Catalano (chair), Cars Hommes (online), Giulia Iori, Marco Pangallo, Arzu Uluc
“Challenges” – Round Table
Round Table:
Simone Alfarano, Lilit Popoyan, Marco Raberto, Andrea Roventini, Alberto Russo (chair), Stefan Thurner
Main Topics
- Agent Based Models (ABMs): Theory, Computation and Estimation
- Economic Growth and Technical Change
- Sustainable Development and Climate Change
- Complex Economic Dynamics
- Economic, Financial and Social Networks
- Econophysics
- Experimental Economics
- Bounded Rationality and Learning
- Evolutionary Game Theory
- Wealth and Income Inequality
- Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Economics
- Spatial Agent Models and Urban Complex Adaptive Systems
- Cryptocurrency Research
Organizing Committee
- Michele Catalano (UNIVPM)
- Silvano Cincotti (University of Genoa)
- Tiziana Di Matteo (King’s College London)
- Mauro Gallegati (UNIVPM)
- Federico Giri (UNIVPM)
- Antonio Palestrini (UNIVPM)
- Alberto Russo (UNIVPM)
Location
Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona (Italy)
Faculty of Economics “Giorgio Fuà”
Piazzale Martelli, 8 – 60121 Ancona – Italy
Contacts
For additional information about the conference and all related events, problems with registration or paper submission and any other request, you can contact us at: wehia2026@eshia.org
Scientific Committee
- Simone Alfarano, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
- Tiziana Assenza, Toulouse School of Economics, France
- Michele Catalano, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Silvano Cincotti, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Eva Camacho Cuena, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
- Domenico Delli Gatti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
- Tiziana Di Matteo, King’s College London, UK
- Giorgos Galanis, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Federico Giri, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Alan Kirman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
- Giulia Iori, Università degli Studi di Venezia, Italy
- Thomas Lux, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
- Rosario Mantegna, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
- Antonio Palestrini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Lilit Popoyan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Andrea Roventini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Alberto Russo, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy