DAY 1 – 11 JUNE 2026
9:00 – 9:30 am
Welcome Coffee and registration
Institutional Remarks
Thomas Le Barbanchon Rodolfo Debenedetti Chair in Labour Economics, and IGIER Director, Bocconi University
9:30 – 10:50 am
Session 1: Macroeconomics
Generative Economic Modeling
Fabio Stohler
Structural Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics
Yucheng Yang
10:50 – 11:20 am
Coffee Break
11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Session 2: AI and the Justice System
Courts of Tomorrow
Elliott Ash
12:00 – 1:00 pm
PhD Flash Session
Monetary Policy Shocks: A New Hope
Ruben Fernandez-Fuertes
AI, Humans, and Ethnic Gaps
Silvia Barbareschi
An Image is Worth 40.38 Words
Andrea Ciccarone
Blameocracy: Causal Rhetoric in Politics
Giacomo Manferdini
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 – 3:50 pm
Session 3: AI and the Future of Work
A.I. in the Office and the Factory
Gustavo de Souza
Social Spillovers and AI Adoption: Evidence from Denmark
Simon Bunel
3:50 – 4:20 pm
Coffee Break
4:20 – 5:40 pm
Session 4: AI and Qualitative Interviews
Evaluating Behavioral Interventions at Scale with AI
Felix Chopra
Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews
Xavier Jaravel
DAY 2 – 12 JUNE 2026
8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome Coffee
Institutional Remarks
Elena Carletti Dean for Research, Bocconi University
9:00 – 10:20 am
Session 5: AI Methods and Algorithmic Decision-Making
How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior?
Sukjin Han
Algorithmic Assistance with Recommendation-Dependent Preferences
Jann Spiess
10:20 – 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:50 am
Bocconi Flash Session
What Is the Political Content in LLMs' Preand Post-Training Data?
Tanise Ceron
Article-Level Slant and Polarization of News Consumption on Social Media
Sarah Eichmeyer
AI Sycophancy
Rafael Jimenez
#Science: How Twitter Shapes Economic
Research
Carlo Schwarz
11:50 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 pm
Keynote
Sendhil Mullainathan
2:15 – 2:45 pm
Coffee Break
2:45 – 4:05 pm
Session 6: AI and Social Welfare
The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care
Manuela Angelucci
When Technology Manages: Workers Demands and Union Responses
Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani
Registration is required
