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SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS ADVANCED INSTITUTE 2009
List of participants
SOFIA AHMED
City/Country of residence: Trento, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Candidate (School of International Studies and CIFREM); Staff Economist (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)
Research interests: International political economy, human capital economics, spatial econometrics, development economics and international trade: Ahmed S., Nadeem‐ul‐Haque (2007), Entrepreneurship in Pakistan, PIDE Working Paper, 29.
LUCIANA AIMONE GIGIO City/Country of residence: Torino, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Researcher, Bank of Italy
Research interests: Micro and macro economy, with specific reference to Manufacturing and Retail Trade.
YURY ANDRIENKO City/Country of residence: Bexley, Australia
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Ph D student, University of Sydney Research interests: Labour economics, economics of crime, health economics: Andrienko Y. and Guriev S. ʺDeterminants of interregional mobility in Russia: Andrienko Y. (2004), Evidence from panel data, Economics of Transition, 12 (1), pp. 1‐27; Andrienko Y. and Shelley L. (2005), Crime, Violence and Political Conflict in Russia, in Collier P. and Sambanis N. (eds), ʺUnderstanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysisʺ Vol. 2, IBRD/WB, Washington DC.
MARTA ANGELICI City/Country of residence: Milano,Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Student, University of Milano‐Bicocca
Research interests: Spatial econometrics, to analyse data about the mobility of people in different States.
ISIDORA BARBACCIA City/Country of residence: Palermo, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Ph.D student, University of Palermo
Research interests: Urban and Regional Economics, with special emphasis in the spatial effects and the role of space in economic interactions between cities and industry; cities growth, inequality, knowledge based economy and regional convergence: Davì M., Babaccia i. (2009), Misure di agglomerazione spaziale nei sistemi locali del lavoro siciliani. Rivista di Economia e Statistica del Territorio (Forthcoming); Id. (2008), Dynamic analysis of sectoral specialization and agglomeration economies in the Sicilian Local Labour Systems, RSA Conference, Praga, 27‐29 May 2008.
ALFREDO BARDOZZETTI City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Economist, Banca dʹItalia
Research interests: Fiscal policy, State and local borrowing, Intergovernmental relations.
ANNA GLORIA BILLÈ City/Country of residence: Montesilvano, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD student
Research interests: Health Econometrics, Health Statistics.
GIULIA CAIANI City/Country of residence: Modena, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Candidate in Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Research interests: Human development. Sustainable development, human rights and distributive justice. Poverty, inequality and quality of life issues in a multidimensional approach à la Sen (capability approach) in urban areas. Microsimulation models for (re)distribution analysis and policy implications: Caiani, G. (2008) Povertà abitativa a Milano : verso una nuova definizione di abitazione povera nel contesto delle grandi città, HDCP‐IRC working paper, 11.
ALEJANDRO ALFONSO CAÑADAS City/Country of residence: Emmitsburg, USA E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Part time professor of Economics at Mount Saint Maryʹs University
Research interests: I am interested in doing research in the areas of inequality of income distribution, poverty, economic growth and religion. Now I am working on how the spatial distribution of inequality in the provinces of Argentina affects real per capita economic growth.
HAN CHEN City/Country of residence: Philadelphia, USA E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Economics student at the Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Macroeconomics (macro labour, DSGE, computational macro).
JEFFREY COHEN City/Country of residence: West Hartford, USA E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hartford
Research interests: Urban and regional economics; applications of spatial econometrics: Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Cletus C. Coughlin. Spatial Hedonic Models of Airport Noise, Proximity, and Housing Prices, 2008, Journal of Regional Science 48(5): 859‐878; Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. Public Infrastructure Investment, Inter‐State Spatial Spillovers, and Manufacturing Costs, 2004, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(2): 551‐560; Cohen, Jeffrey P. and Catherine Morrison Paul. The Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Property Values: A Higher‐Order Spatial Econometrics Approach, 2007, Journal of Regional Science 47: 457‐478.
JEANNE DACHARY‐BERNARD City/Country of residence: Gazinet, France E‐mail: jeanne.dachary‐[email protected]
Position: Researcher in spatial economics at CEMAGREF. ʺAmenities and dynamics of rural areaʺ research unit.
Research interests: Land use changes and conflicts, discrete choice models. Agricultural land values, hedonic models. Specific geographic area of research: costal zone, periurbanization (urban sprawl): Dachary‐Bernard J. (2008), How choice experiments inform public environmental policies? A French case study of landscape valuation, in E. Birol and P. Koundouri (Eds), Choice experiments informing European environmental policy, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp.106‐129; Rambonilaza M. and Dachary‐Bernard J. (2007), Land‐use planning and public preferences: What can we learn from choice experiments method?, Landscape and Urban Planning, 83, p 318‐326.
SARA D’ANDREAMATTEO City/Country of residence: Pescara, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Undergraduate student in “statistical methods for the analysis of economic systems”, University of Rome “Roma3”
Research interests: Statistics, with a particular focus on spatial econometric applications.
FRANK DAVENPORT City/Country of residence: Santa Barbara, USA E‐mail: [email protected] Position: PhD Student in Geography at the University of
CA, Santa Barbara
Research interests: My current research focuses on the socio‐economic causes and consequences of spatial restructuring in the Mexican Maize system. This falls under my broader interests in: Food Security and Food Systems, Spatial Determinants of Malnutrition, Spatial Inequality, Spatial Optimization, and Small Area Estimation: Davenport F.M., Sweeney S., Analyzing Child Malnutrition in Guatemala: A New Approach Comparing Multi‐Level Logistic and Quantile Regressions (In Prep.); Heaton J. S., Davenport F. M. et al. (2008), Spatially explicit decision support for selecting translocation areas for desert tortoises, Biodiversity and Conservation, 17, pp. 575‐590.
TAMARA DE LA MATA LÓPEZ City/Country of residence: Madrid, Spain E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD candidate at the Department of Economics. Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM).
Research interests: Spatial econometrics, international and inter‐regional trade of goods and services, new economic geography, spatial interaction modelling: Llano C., de la Mata T. (2009), El comercio inter‐regional de bienes y servicios en España: una primera estimación de los flujos bilaterales del sector Turismo, Revista del ICE. (Under review); De la Mata T., Llano (2009), Modelo gravitatorio y turismo: una aplicación al comercio inter‐regional del sector Turismo en España, Investigaciones Regionales, (Under review); Lesage J., Llano C., de la Mata (2009). Networks and Trade of Services: modelling the Spanish domestic tourism flows using a gravity model with spatial autocorrelation effects. Working Paper to be send to the III World Conference: 8‐10 July 2009 Barcelona.
SABRINA DI ADDARIO City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Economist, Bank of Italy
Research interests: Labour Economics. Regional and Urban Economics, Agglomeration. Housing: Di Addario S., Patacchini E. (2008); Wages and the City. Evidence from Italy, Labour Economics, 15, pp. 1040‐1061; Di Addario S., de Blasio G. (2005), Do Workers Benefit from Industrial Agglomeration?, Journal of Regional Science, 45 (4), pp. 797‐827.
CALOGERO DI GLORIA City/Country of residence: Rome, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Student, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Research interests: The objective of my PhD research is to analyze the role of crop genetic diversity on improving farmersʹ livelihoods in marginal areas of Syria through a farm‐level analysis of barley production. The final goal is to contribute to improving the welfare of small resource poor farmers by understanding the factors that contribute to increase and stabilize barley and animal production in the rainfed areas of Syria.
DAVIDE FANTINO City/Country of residence: Torino, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Coadiutore, Bank of Italy
Research interests: Economics of Innovation, Growth, Microeconometrics. International Economics: Fantino D., R&D and market structure in a horizontal differentiation framework, Bank of Italy Working paper N. 658.
MARINA FONTES GONTIJO City/Country of residence: São Paulo, Brazil E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Researcher, Itau Bank SA
Research interests: Spatial Economics, Welfare Economics. Regional and Urban Economics,
City/Country of residence: Rostock, Germany E‐mail: [email protected]
KATHRYN GRACE
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Research interests: I am primarily interested in fertility and migration behaviours over time and across space. Space is an important component of temporal changes. Individuals bring information about ʺinnovativeʺ fertility and family formation behaviours as they move throughout the country or interact with ʺneighboursʺ. However space has been largely neglected in the development of theories of fertility transition and change.
City/Country of residence: Oxford , UK E‐mail: [email protected]
CHRISTIAN HELMERS
Position: PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, Department of Economics
Research interests: My research focuses on the link between innovation and firm performance paying particular attention to the role of spillovers: Export subsidies in a heterogeneous Firms Framework, with Natalia Trofimenko, Kiel Working Paper N. 1476 (submitted); Innovation and the Survival of New Firms across British Regions, with Mark Rogers, University of Oxford Department of Economics Working Paper N. 416 (submitted); The Formation and Evolution of Childhood Skill Acquisition: Evidence from India, with Manasa Patnam, Young Lives Working Paper N. 38 (submitted).
RICO IHLE
City/Country of residence: Goettingen, Germany E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Research Assistant/ Ph.D. student, Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development and Centre for Statistics, Goettingen University, Germany
Research interests: Spatial price transmission, spatial price formation. Spatial econometrics, nonlinear time series econometrics. International trade: Ihle, R., Amikuzuno, J. and S. von Cramon‐Taubadel (2008), The Influence of Physical Trade Flows on the Integration of Tomato Markets in Ghana. International conference on ʺMarket Integration and Food Security in Developing Countriesʺ, November 3‐ 4; Ihle, R. and S. von Cramon‐Taubadel (2008), A Comparison of Threshold Cointegration and Markov‐Switching Vector Error Correction Models in Price Transmission Analysis, Conference on “Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting and Market Risk Management”, April 21‐22.
SANDRINE LYSER City/Country of residence: Cestas Cedex, France E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Research technician in statistics and econometrics, CEMAGREF ‐ Research Unit ʺAmenities and dynamics of rural areasʺ
Research interests: Landscape, environmental amenities, outdoor recreation; Economic evaluation (discrete choice models, hedonic models, contingent valuation…): Rulleau, B., Dehez, J., Lyser, S., Point, P. (2007), Estimating tourist vs resident outdoor recreation demand using the Multi‐Program Valuation Method, International Conference ʺ Advances in Tourism Economics ʺ, 13‐14 avril; Rulleau, B. , Dehez, J. , Lyser, S. , Point, P. (2008), Heterogeneity of recreational services and varying preferences of users: an application of choice experiment to french forests. Joint final conference of Forest for recreation and tourism, 28‐31 May.
TOM MAYOCK City/Country of residence: Tallahassee, USA E‐mail: [email protected] Position: Teaching Specialist, Florida State University
Research interests: Urban and Housing economics, Applied Econometrics. Labor economics, Land use regulation : The Incidence of the Land Use Regulatory Tax, with Keith Ihlanfeldt and Ron Cheung, Real Estate Economics (Forthcoming).
ARNE MELCHIOR City/Country of residence: Oslo, Norway. E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Research interests: International trade and economic geography, spatial economics, international income distribution. I have done some theoretical and empirical work on spatial economics, e.g.. See NUPI working papers 749 and 750 in web link: http://english.nupi.no/
ERNEST MIGUELEZ City/Country of residence: Barcelona, Spain E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Scholarship holder, Departament dʹEconometria, Estadística i Economia Espanyola, Universitat de Barcelona; AQR Research Group; IREA
Research interests: Patterns (spatial and temporal) of creation and diffusion of knowledge across European regions. Sources of creation and diffusion of knowledge. Social relationships and mobility of human capital, scientists and inventors as mechanisms of knowledge transfer and spillovers: Miguelez, Moreno, Artís (2008), Does social capital reinforce technological inputs? Evidence from Spanish regions. IREA working papers, submitted to Regional Studies; Artis, Miguelez, Moreno (2009), Assessing agglomeration economies in a spatial framework with endogenous regressors, Mimeo.
SANDRO MOMIGLIANO City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: director in Bank of Italy (Fiscal Division ‐ Research Department)
Research interests: Fiscal Policy
JORGE ESTEBAN MORENO MOLESTINA City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD candidate, ?
Research interests: Price transmission, Trade effects on welfare, Food Security.
KATHRYN OWENS City/Country of residence: Los Angeles, USA E‐mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Position: PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Research interests: I am interested in the spatial impact of risk analysis as it relates to real estate investment and housing markets in particular. I am currently working on a model, which examines the impact of the proximity of foreclosures on property value. I am also interested in understanding the impact of spatial proximity of infrastructure and amenities on property value. I am also looking at the impact of the Port of Los Angeles on the regional economy of Southern California.
JAVIER I. PEREZ‐BURGOS City/Country of residence: Ithaca, USA E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Student, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Research interests: Labor marketsʹ location dynamics in developing countries. In particular, Iʹm focusing on the determinants for jobs spatial allocation in developing cities in Latin‐America. Iʹm looking at the determinants from both the supply and demand that make jobs locate in certain parts of a city or a region: Perez‐Burgos J.I. (2009), Bogotápolis: The allocation of manufacturing jobs in a developing metropolis, the case of Bogota 1992‐2003, First Conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas (in print); PÉREZ‐BURGOS J. (2006), Bogotápolis: Un estudio sobre la localización del empleo en Bogotá 1992‐2003, Revista Desarrollo & Sociedad, 57, CEDE.
MARZIA ROMANELLI City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Economist, Banca dʹItalia
Research interests: Health economics. Dynamic microsimulation. Welfare and Inequality: Fiaschi D., Romanelli M., 2008, Nonlinear Dynamics in Welfare and the Evolution of World Inequality, mimeo, Department of Economics, University of Pisa; Mariani M., Romanelli M., 2007, ʺStackingʺ and ʺpickingʺ inventions: the patenting behavior of European inventors, Research Policy, 36(8): 1128‐1142; Vagliasindi P., Romanelli M., Bianchi C., 2004, Reforming the Italian pension system in the XXI century: tackling the issue of seniority pensions once again, Advances in Complex Systems, 7(2): 241‐264.
CHIARA ROSAZZA BONDIBENE City/Country of residence: Egham Hill, UK E‐mail: c.rosazza‐[email protected]
Position: PhD student, Royal Holloway college, University of London
Research interests: Spatial Aspects of Labour Economics. Applied Econometrics. Labour Economics: Rosazza Bondibene C., Dolton P. and Wadsworth J. (2009), The Geography of the Minimum Wage, working paper.
ILSE RUYSSEN City/Country of residence: Gent, Belgium E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Student / Assistant, Ghent University, Belgium
Research interests: I am currently working on the determinants of international migration. At the hour of estimating, I try to go beyond standard estimation methods and incorporate new aspects. That is why, in my second paper, I want to take into consideration the possibility of spatial correlation in the migration context.
EVA BRIGITTE SCHMIDTNER City/Country of residence: Stuttgart, Germany E‐mail: schmidtn@uni‐hohenheim.de
Position: Master student, Scientific staff at the Universität Hohenheim from February 2009 on (Doctoral student), Universität Hohenheim, Institute for Farm Management
Research interests: Socioeconomics and environmental performance of agriculture. Development and impact of (organic) farming policies in the European regions. Organic agriculture and its potential to food security. Determinants of spatial distribution of organic farming.
City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy E‐mail: [email protected]
FRANCESCA SPAGNOLO
Position: Consultant Research interests: Statistics, Actuarial statistics, Economic Statistics, Economics, maths, Econometric: F. Barbaro, C. Amati, F. De Angelis, M.A. Guerrizio, F. Spagnolo, The forecasting system for public investment expenditure: the case of projects in the framework programme agreements, Materiali Uval 8, 2006, Ministry for the Economy and Finance, DPS, Public Investment Verification Unit.; F. Barbaro, C. Amati, M.A. Guerrizio, F. Spagnolo, V. Bravi, The importance of factor levels in the forecasting system for the expenditure of public investments, Ministry for the Economy and Finance, DPS, Public Investment Verification Unit, 47th Congress of the European Regional Science Association.
CHIAN‐YUE (ANDY) WANG City/Country of residence: Cambridge, UK E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD student, Cambridge University
Research interests: Spatial panel data models. New Economic Geography. Spatial statistics.
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Instructors and staff
GIUSEPPE ARBIA City/Country of residence: Pescara/Roma, Italy
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, University ʺG. dʹAnnunzioʺ of Pescara, Italy.
Role in SEAI: Director. Instructor, “Spatial Statistics” (Week I)
Research interests: spatial concentration of economic activities. Spatial econometrics. Spatial Health Econometrics.
BADI BALTAGI City/Country of residence: Syracuse, USA
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Distinguished Professor of Economics. CPR Senior Research Associate. Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, USA
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Spatial Panel Data” (Week IV)
Research interests: econometrics. Panel data. Spatial econometrics.
HARRY KELEIJAN
City/Country of residence: College Park, USA
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Professor of Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Spatial Econometrics I” (Week II)
Research interests: econometrics with a Focus on Spatial Issues, Applied Econometric Modeling.
JAEN PAELINCK City/Country of residence: Rotterdam, Netherlands
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Distinguished Visiting Professor. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Theoretical Spatial Economics” (Week I)
Research interests: regional economics.Theoretical spatial economics. Spatial econometrics.
INGMAR PRUCHA City/Country of residence: College Park, USA
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Professor of Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA.
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Spatial Econometrics II” (Week III)
Research interests: theoretical and applied econometrics. Major focus is on spatial modeling.
GIANFRANCO PIRAS City/Country of residence: Urbana‐Champaign, USA
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Research Assistant University ʺG. dʹAnnunzioʺ of Pescara, Italy and REAL, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, IL, USA
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Computer Labs” (Week II‐IV)
Research interests: applied spatial econometrics. Continuous time modelling. Spatial house pricing.
FILIPPO CELATA City/Country of residence: Roma, Italy
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: Research fellow in Economic and Political Geography, University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Role in SEAI: Executive secretary
ROSARIO PAVONE City/Country of residence: Rome, Italy
E‐mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD Candidate in Economic Geography, University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Role in SEAI: Tutor
