Registration desk will be open on Wednesday from 8:15.
Presentations are classified into Full papers (F) and Posters (P). Instructions can be found at presentation instructions.
Opening
Wednesday 1, 9:00 – 9:30. Room Salón de Actos
Keynote
Wednesday 1, 9:30 – 10:30. Room Salón de Actos
AI hires humans and humans ask AI: Challenges in methods of online data collection
Ulf-Dietrich Reips
Session 1a. ML & Econometrics
Wednesday 01, 11:00 – 13:00. Room 1
Chair: Ana Garcia-Bernabeu
GDP Components Nowcasting with Machine Learning
Shereena Silva Salas, Dennis Malabuyoc Bautista
From metrics to decisions: aligning evaluation methods with decision problems in adaptive reuse
Irina Sergeevna Shcherbakova, Mª Gracia López Patiño, Antoni López Martínez
Operational Evaluation of Rare-Event Prediction in Socio-Economic Data: Prevalence Regimes, Budget-Constrained Targeting, and Distribution Shift
Jaime Villanueva-García, Luis Javier García Villalba, Ignacio Moral-Arce
Is TWFE Enough? When to Switch to Double Machine Learning in Differences in Differences
Martin Gabriel Cargnel, Maria Noelia Romero
Anticipating corporate distress: an interpretable XGBoost early-warning model
Chiara Cornacchione, Claudio Lupi, Margherita Smarra
Qualitative Analysis of Misclassifications: An application to firm activity classification
Joan Fernández-Navarro, Ana Debón, Josep Domenech
Session 1b. LLMs
Wednesday 01, 11:00 – 13:00. Room 2
Chair: Xavier Martínez-Barbero
Exploring the link between Human Needs and Human Values using Synthetic Data
Lara Fontanella, Berta Chulvi, José Ángel González, Francisco Rangel
Between the Embedding and the Prompt: Systematic Design Effects in LLM-based Occupation Coding
Olga Kononykhina, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Frauke Kreuter
News-enhanced Large Language Models in macroeconomic forecasting in the Netherlands
Leonardo Becarelli, Michiel Nijhuis, Jasper de Winter, Luca Trapin
Can Language Models Analyze Data? Evaluating Large Language Models for Question Answering over Datasets
Andreas Xenofontos, Pavlos Fafalios
Quantifying Linguistic Anthropomorphism in Multilingual LLM
Juan Luis Blanco-Guzmán, Jeisson A. Higuera Reina
‘Pretend You Are a Central Bank Economist’: Exploring GenAI-Based News Surveillance using Azure OpenAI
Mary Kryslette Bunyi
Session 1c. Finance
Wednesday 01, 11:00 – 13:00. Room 3
Chair: Pablo de Pedraza
Social Trading Sentiment and Asset Returns: Causal Machine Learning Evidence from TradingView
Quynh Phuong Nguyen
Performance of Crowd-Sourced Alpha: Evidence from TradingView Trading Strategies
Quynh Phuong Nguyen
Public Attention to Monetary Policy: Asymmetric Responses in Google Search Behavior Following Interest Rate Changes in the Euro Area
Florian Schütze, Sami Diaf
Cryptocurrency investment and cognitive biases in financial literacy: Evidence from the US
David Aristei, Manuela Gallo, Marco Patacca
Coding Styles and Financial Distress: Evidence from HTML Structure of Italian SMEs’ Websites
Carlo Bottai, Lisa Crosato, Caterina Liberati
Session 2a. Marketing
Wednesday 01, 14:30 – 15:45. Room 1
Chair: María Olmedilla
A Psychological Framework for Enhanced AI-Driven Marketing Communication
Federico Neri, Marco Caridi, Pier Benzi
Who really uses VAAs – Evidence of Diverging Biases Between Donor and Non-Donor Users
Lukas Schütte
Retail Site Selection: Augmenting Statistical Learning with Large Language Models
Dominik Heinisch, Benedikt Lugauer, Enrique Fita Sanmartin, Markus Herrmann
Generative AI and Agentic AI in Digital Marketing: A Conceptual Comparison of Capabilities and Roles
Khalil Israfilzade
Session 2b. Tourism
Wednesday 01, 14:30 – 15:45. Room 2
Chair: Eduardo Cebrián
Explaining and predicting tourists’ circular behaviour: A PLS-SEM and machine learning study of hotels in Mallorca
Mónica Martínez-Gómez, Marta Jacob Escuarcia, Carmen Florido, Aldric Vives, Lorena Martínez
Enhancing Cultural Heritage and Slow Tourism via Heterogeneous Data Integration: The Case of Italy.
Andrea D’Isidoro, Matteo Di Giovanni
Uncorking Profits: A Causal Analysis of Enotourism on Firm Performance
Rita Jiménez, Ana María Debon, Josep Domenech
Session 2c. Energy and Sustainability
Wednesday 01, 14:30 – 15:45. Room 3
Chair: Konstantinos Tsagarakis
Seeking Common Ground Between Quality of Life, Happiness, and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis
Marius Constantin, Raluca Ignat, Elena-Mădălina Deaconu, Mihnea Jurca
Scalable Energy Intelligence for Global Retail Operations
Dominik Heinisch, Markus Herrmann
Credibility and Greenwashing in Corporate Energy Communication: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms
Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martínez-Barbero, Josep Domenech
Session 3a. Public Policy
Thursday 02, 09:00 – 10:30. Room 1
Chair: Elena Catanese
AI and Political Decision-Making: Evidence from the Italian Parliament
Simone Dei Pieri
Public debt by municipality in Veracruz, Mexico 2024. In search of reliable data.
Diana Donají Del Callejo Canal, Margarita Edith Canal Martínez, René Mariani Ochoa, Flor Lucila Delfín Pozos
Digital Subsidies and Public-Sector Performance: Evidence from Municipal Social Media
Nicola Caravaggio, Giuliano Resce, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo
Captured Voices: Organized Crime Infiltration and Municipal Communication
Nicola Caravaggio, Giuliano Resce, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo
The effect of public opinion on policy outcomes: A case study on WLTP
Eduardo Cebrián, Giuliano Resce
Session 3b. Labour
Thursday 02, 09:00 – 10:30. Room 2
Chair: Pablo de Pedraza
From Fragmentation to Foresight: The Role and Labour Market Value of New STEM Programmes in Higher Education
Zsuzsa Bakk, Barbara Belfi, Laurence Nickel
AI organizational capabilities: A proposal for a comprehensive taxonomy
Maria Rubio Ortiz, Carmen María Felipe Llanos, Jose Luis Roldán Salgueiro, Patrick Mikalef
Evaluating the labor market impact of Italy’s National Strategy for Inner Areas
Nicola Caravaggio
How AI Reshapes Task Demand Structures: Evidence from Korean IT Job (2018 – 2022)
Jihwan Sim
Session 3c. Official Statistics
Thursday 02, 09:00 – 10:30. Room 3
Chair: Mary Kryslette Bunyi
Institutional Capacity of Local Governments to Implement Circular Economy Clauses in Public Procurement: Evidence from South-East Poland
Aldona Migala-Warchol, Barbara Puszkarewicz
Industry 5.0 technologies for automated data reporting in official statistics
Gabriella Fazzi, Diego Distefano, Paola Bosso, Giovanni Gualberto Di Paolo, Pasquale Papa, Barbara Iaconelli, Alessandra Nurra
AI for Questionnaires: A Strategic Initiative for the Modernization of Statistical Production
Sabrina Barcherini, Guido Drovandi, Francesca Rossetti
Accuracy and Representation of Public Real Estate Assets: A Comparative Analysis of Italian Metropolitan Cities
Ida Ciarlillo, Giorgio Ialenti, Giuliano Resce
Session 4a. Social Media
Thursday 02, 11:00 – 12:00. Room 1
Chair: Nicola Caravaggio
Emotion detection for online gender-based stereotypes: a comparative study
Elena Catanese
Hate Narratives and Collective Memory: A Methodological Perspective for the Study of Antisemitism on Social Media
Giuseppe Giordano, Maria Prosperina Vitale, Luca De Benedictis, Egor Smirnov
The words of populism on social network. Analyzing users interaction of four Italian political leaders in European election of 2024
Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli, Rosario Giuseppe D’agata, Domenico De Stefano
Session 4b. Misinformation
Thursday 02, 11:00 – 12:00. Room 2
Chair: Giuliano Resce
What Kind of Propaganda Reaches You? Patterns of Russian Far Right Information Dissemination
Andrea Russo
Manipulating customer perception via context-aware fake review injection
María Olmedilla Fernández, Rocío Martínez-Torres, José Carlos Romero, Sergio Toral
Modeling human and LLM-generated counter narratives on the hypersphere: a directional analysis of anti-Roma counter speech
Jai Jobe, Alex Cucco, Stefania Fensore, Annalina Sarra, Lara Fontanella, Marco Di Marzio
Keynote
Thursday 2, 12:00 – 13:00. Room Salón de Actos
Knowledge graphs, FAIR principles and generative AI for interdisciplinary research
Anna Fensel
Session 5a. Data-driven Competitiveness in SMEs
Thursday 02, 14:30 – 15:45. Room 1
Chair: Ana Catarina Nunes
What It Takes to Become a Data-Driven SME: Insights from Portugal
Paula Vicente, Elizabeth Reis
Data Analytics and Strategic Planning in a Bioproducts Micro-Enterprise
Tomás do Nascimento, Nuno Santos, Paula Vicente, Sofia Martins
Using Sentiment Analysis to Detect Operational Issues in a Holiday Rental Company
Mafalda Ponte, Ana Catarina Nunes, Pedro Ramos, Francisco Cruz, Paula Vicente
Session 6a. Innovation
Friday 03, 09:00 – 10:30. Room 1
Chair: Maria Rosalia Vicente
Longitudinal Analysis of Patents in Brazil between 2000 and 2025 Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Priscila Rezende da Costa, Camila Naves Arantes, Carlos Eduardo Costa de Glavina Reino
Mapping technological diversification in open-source software: A Transformer-based approach for analysing knowledge reuse in GitHub
Leonardo Mazzoni, Fabio Pinelli, Emilio Incerto, Mauro Lombardi, Mariano Mastrogiorgio
The changing landscape of academic Search: evidence from a worldwide survey
Núria Bautista Puig, Enrique Orduña-Malea, Eva Méndez, Carmen Pérez Esparrells, Rodrigo Costas
Scientific, Business and Public interest toward Mastic Chios
Antonios Psathas, Nikos Kalogeras, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
Unveiling the Structure and Strategy of the EU Cluster Ecosystem Using Web Data
Marcos Ranchal, Ana Debon, Josep Domenech, Francisco Puig
Session 6b. Digital Data Analytics
Friday 03, 09:00 – 10:30. Room 2
Chair: Markus Herrmann
An IMDb_id Centric Framework for Building Multi-Source Film Datasets for Audiovisual Market Analysis
Carlos A. del Álamo Alonso, Antonio M. Durán Rosal, Javier Pérez Rodríguez
Content is King, Context is Not: Predicting Social Media Engagement in the Italian Telecom Sector
Giuseppe Di Renzo, Giuliano Resce, Santiago Nunez Rimedio
Data-Driven Crisis Detection and Support Prioritization for Student Mental Health
Pritom Das, Afsana Islam
Black Friday Goes Global: A Two-Decade Analysis of Online Search Interest Using Google Trends
Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
Clustered Dose–Response Functions for Continuous Treatments: the case of EU funds
Augusto Cerqua, Roberta Di Stefano, Raffaele Mattera
Session poster.
Friday 03, 10:30 – 11:15.
Arbitrage Dynamics in Cryptocurrency Markets: Evidence from Cross Exchange Price Deviations
Quynh Phuong Nguyen
Asymmetric Effects of Shipping and Return Policies: Evidence from a Randomized 2×2 Factorial Experiment
Caterina Rauh, Eric Sucky
Human-in-the-Loop Validation for LLM-Based Policy Audits: Measuring Language-Access Discourse at Scale
Shaheera Sayed
Decision Support System for Dynamic Exposure Management Using Sentiment as Risk Signals
Julen Iglesias, Carmen Orden-Cruz, Jose Torres-Pruñonosa, Raúl Gómez
From Human Hands to Machine Minds: Financing AI-Driven Entrepreneurship in Reward-Based Crowdfunding
Zirui Song, George Shan, Yihui Lan
Laws of Thought: From Diachronic Corpora through AI to the Dynamics of Conceptual Change
Tymon Kukier
The implications of sustainability on the financial performance of companies in the education sector
Ina Nimerenco, Raluca Mihaela Drăcea, Carmen Lenuța Trică, Bogdan Cristian Chiripuci
Interdependence in Global Agricultural Commodity Prices: Evidence from a VAR Analysis
Raluca Mihaela Drăcea, Raluca Georgiana Lădaru, Mirela Cristea, Ina Nimerenco
Functional Modeling of Subjective Time: Analyzing Inconsistent Decisions via Functional Time Distortion
Vincenzo Li Calzi, Fabrizio Maturo, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Andrea Mazzitelli, Annamaria Porreca
Structural Changes in Housing and Mortgage Case Law: Identifying Thematic Shifts through Text Mining
Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli, Alessio Sardo, Chiara Baggetta, Domenico De Stefano
Session 7a. AI in Management
Friday 03, 11:15 – 12:30. Room 1
Chair: Caterina Liberati
AI-Driven Ancillary Pricing: Promise, Assumptions, and Gaps
Feryaal F. Ahmed, John G. Wilson
Optimising multi-target policies with Machine Learning: the case of Agro-energy
Nicola Caravaggio, Giuliano Resce, Cristina Vaquero Pineiro
AI-Augmented Project Risk Management: Lowering the Experiential Barrier through Large Language Models
Byung-Cheol Kim
The Role of Prompt Language in Large Language Model Performance: Evidence from Corporate Website Analysis
Xavier Martínez-Barbero, Ana Pastor-Merino, Josep Domenech
Session 7b. Firms & Networks
Friday 03, 11:15 – 12:30. Room 2
Chair: Lisa Crosato
Vocal Delivery Predicts Startup Success: A Multimodal Pitch Analysis
Héctor Borobia Aranda, Elíes Seguí Mas, Guillermina Tormo Carbó
Using website text to improve counterfactual construction in firm-level policy evaluation
Eugeni Gil-Ocana, Pablo de Pedraza, Ana Garcia-Bernabeu
Do Semantic Networks Encode Latent Traits? A Bayesian Semi-Supervised IRT Approach
Alex Cucco, Lara Fontanella, Sara Fontanella, Luigi Ippoliti, Pasquale Valentini
Recruitment and Soft Skills in the Italian Labor Market: A Focus on the Tourism Sector
Daniele Pirotta, Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta, Mariangela Zenga
Keynote
Friday 3, 12:30 – 13:30. Room Salón de Actos
Advanced Research Methods and Analytics in “Science for Policy” Research
Nestor Duch-Brown
Closing
Friday 3, 13:30 – 14:00. Room Salón de Actos