Econ4um (Economics Forum) is a seminar series organized by the EF Program. The goal of this series is to engage the discussion and cooperation of economic questions arising in the various fields covered by IIASA research. The invited speakers include researchers from all IIASA programs as well as international experts. Below you can find the comprehensive list of previous presentations. Furthermore, the Econ4um also hosts a bi-yearly special seminar series on “Modelling Resilience and Disruptive Changes”.
Econ4um presentations
Please find the list of presenters in order of recency below.
Marten Hillebrand
7 October 2026
Climate Policy and International Risk Sharing
Guo-Liang Zheng
12 August 2026
Managing Termination Shock Risk of Solar Geoengineering in a Warming World
Jonathan Rosser
30 April 2026
Climate Uncertainty, Atlantic Circulation Tipping, and Economic Impacts
Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg
29 April 2026
Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under an Environmental Limit (with Michael Burda, HU Berlin)
Santiago Graña-Colella
16 April 2026
Assessing Immigration Policies in Denmark: Macroeconomic Effects in a Labor-Constrained Economy
Alexandra Brausmann
12 March 2026
Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters
Daniel Heyen
24 July 2025
Solar Geoengineering and the Free-Driver Problem
Francisco Cabo
10 April 2025
On Green Reputation
Ibrahim Tahri
20 August 2024
Portfolio allocation bias of oil-based sovereign wealth funds
Huiying Ye
14 August 2024
Linking R&D Investment to Emission Reduction Cooperation: Overcoming Free-Riding While Achieving Deep De-Carbonization
Matteo Coronese
6 March 2024
Raided by the storm: how three decades of thunderstorms shaped U.S. incomes and wages
Muneta Yokomatsu,
21 June 2023,
A Growth Model of Natural Hazard, Household Heterogeneity, and Human Capital Development
Fouad El Ouardighi,
24 May 2023,
A dynamic model of environmental collapse
Elena Parilina,
16 March 2023,
Great fish war with moratorium
Georges Zaccour
14 March 2023
Space Debris: Another Tragedy of the Commons?
Pauli Lappi,
16 February 2023,
On optimal restoration of damaged stocks
Leila Niamir,
26 January 2023,
Behavioural Climate Change Mitigation: from individual energy choices to demand-side potentials
Michael Freiberger,
24 November 2022,
Understanding the limitations of recycling and utilization targets for circular plastics management: a general economic equilibrium model including material flow analysis
Piotr Zebrowski,
19 October 2022,
Representing fairness and equity in quantitative modeling frameworks
Stefan Wrzaczek & Michael Kuhn,
24 August 2022,
Resilience: a decision-theoretical approach
Miguel Poblete Cazenave,
23 June 2022,
Intra-household inequality, adoption of clean cooking technologies and its associated health implications
Tapio Palokangas,
19 May 2022,
Optimal international policy with r&d-based growth and the risk of global environmental disaster
Gregor Kiesewetter,
16 December 2021,
(Air-)Pollution and Inequality
Nikolay Khabarov,
25 November 2021,
The use of the Social Cost of Carbon as opposed to Social Marginal Abatement Cost in Integrated Assessments
Brian Fath,
3 November 2021,
Regenerative economics
Bi-yearly special seminar series on “Modelling Resilience and Disruptive Changes”
The Econ4um also hosts a bi-yearly special seminar series on “Modelling Resilience and Disruptive Changes”. The list of speakers can be found below.
Yongyang Cai
23 September 2026
Strategic Spillovers of Time Inconsistency Risk in Climate Commitment
Markus Brunnermeier
8 May 2025
Resilience and Macrofinance
Eli Fenichel
17 April 2024
Nature Capital: Measuring the Economic Power of Nature
Aart de Zeeuw
15 February 2024
The Economics and Mathematics of Tipping Points
Anne-Sophie Crepin,
29 June 2023,
Cascading regime shifts in pollution recipients and resource systems
Upcoming Events
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Training workshop: Demographic analysis with applications to aging, health, and education
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
On a Collision Course in Orbit: Who Bears Responsibility for Space Debris?
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Seminar Room 1, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria