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SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS ADVANCED INSTITUTE 2010 - List of participants
Name: Jorge Alexander
Surname: Bonilla Londoño
City/Country
of residence: Göteborg, Sweden
Position: PhD Student in the Department of Economics
Affiliation: University of Gothenburg
Main research
interests:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Applied Econometrics; Economics of Climate Change
Name: Maria Felice
Surname: Arezzo
City/Country
of residence: Roma, Italy
Position: Researcher in statistics
Affiliation: University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Main research
interests:
Statistical methods for program evaluations; Non-parametric classification methods especially classification trees and ensemble predictors; Model averaging; Analysis of Passenger Travel Demand Models
Name: Giorgia
Surname: Bressan
City/Country
of residence: Treviso, Italy
Position: PhD Student
Affiliation: University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Main research
interests:
Spatial evolution of industries, determinants of regional growth, economic and geographical implications of electoral systems
Name: Jose
Surname: Carvalho
City/Country
of residence: Fortaleza, Brazil
Position: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Ceará
Main research
interests:
Econometrics (Semi-nonparametric duration analysis); Labor Economics (Program Evaluation); Quantitative Crime Analysis (“Crime-metrics” and GIS applied to crime)
Name: Paula
Surname: Carvalho Pereda
City/Country
of residence: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Position: Phd Student – Economics Dept. USP
Affiliation: University Of Sao Paulo (USP)
Main research
interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Regional Economics,; Spatial Econometrics (using Panel Data, correcting selection bias, and other advanced issues); Climate Change Effects, Environmental Economics
Name: Eduardo Celso
Surname: De Araujo Marinho Filho
City/Country
of residence: Ispra, VA, Italy
Position: Post-doctoral fellow
Affiliation: Joint Research Centre
Main research
interests:
Food security mapping and early warning: the determinants of food security using georeferenced household surveys, remote sensing and GIS data. Rural Market Integration: the spatio-temporal integration of rural markets in Africa, and how prices rely on local production.
Name: Domenico
Surname: Depalo
City/Country
of residence: Rome, Italy
Position: Junior Economist
Affiliation: Bank Of Italy
Main research
interests:
Microeconometrics: panel data and “sample attrition”; treatment effect; micro-simulation.
Name: Nicola Francesco
Surname: Dotti
City/Country
of residence: Milano (Italy)
Position: PhD Student
Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Main research
interests:
Public Policy Evaluation: Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of the EU policies
Institutions, Federalism and territorial development policies
University and territorial development.
Name: Tawfiq
Surname: El-Zabri
City/Country
of residence: Roma, Italy
Position: Country Programme Manager
Affiliation: International Fund for Agricultural Development
Main research
interests: Natural resource economics; Theory of clubs and groups; Spatial modelling.
Name: Sofia
Surname: Galligani
City/Country
of residence: London, United Kingdom
Position: Research Student
Affiliation: Centre for Transport Studies, Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College London
Main research
interests: Urban mass-transit investment, mode-shift and climate change
Name: Giuliano
Surname: Guerra
City/Country
of residence: Lugano, Switzerland
Position: Ph. D. Student
Affiliation: Università della Svizzera Italiana
Main research
interests:
Entrepreneurship and business creation (the determinants of local self-employment rates of immigrants within the Swiss labour market). Advanced spatial econometric specifications, in order to deal with spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity in the data set.
Name: Christoph
Surname: Hauser
City/Country
of residence: Goetzens, Austria
Position: University Assistant
Affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck
Main research
interests:
Social capital and regional innovation, transfer of tacit knowledge through social networks. Spatial distribution and structure of social capital in European regions, regional competitiveness and intangible capital. Diffusion of knowledge through networks of firms and institutions, impact of spatial proximity.
Name: Marcos
Surname: Herrera Gómez
City/Country
of residence: Zaragoza, Spain
Position: Phd student
Affiliation: University of Zaragoza
Main research
interests: Causality in spatial econometric; Multilevel analysis; Applied Econometric.
Name: Christina
Surname: Kakderi
City/Country
of residence:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Position: PhD student, Researcher
Affiliation:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), School of Technology, Department of Urban Planning and Regional Development
Main research
interests:
Geography and knowledge production and diffusion, networks of innovation, systems of innovation, patent data
Name: Rafael
Surname: Lata
City/Country
of residence: Wien, Austria
Position: PhD Student (Philipps-University Marburg)
Affiliation: Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Main research
interests:
Innovation economics; Spatial econometrics, spatial interaction models; Economic geography
Name: Frédéric
Surname: Laurin
City/Country
of residence: Trois-Rivières (Qc), Canada
Position: Professor
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Department of Management Sciences,
Main research
interests:
New Economic Geography; Regional economic development and international trade. Economic integration. Real estate in transition countries.
Name: Per Botolf
Surname: Maurseth
City/Country
of residence: Oslo, Norway
Position: Associate professor, economics
Affiliation: Dept. of economics, Norwegian School of Management (BI)
Main research
interests:
Economics of innovation, growth economics, international
Economics, spatial econometrics
Name: Katrin
Surname: Migliorati
City/Country
of residence: Bergamo, Italy
Position: Ph.D Student
Affiliation:
University of Bergamo - Department of Economics and
Technology Management
Main research
interests:
Corporate Finance: Initial Public Offerings (Value determinants in IPO operations; Rule of intermediaries in the listing process); Statistical and econometric applications; Times series, panel data and qualitative choice models.
Name: Benjamin
Surname: Montmartin
City/Country
of residence: Feurs, France
Position: PhD student
Affiliation: GATE-LSE CNRS UMR 5824
Main research
interests:
Economic geography, Endogenous growth and subsidy policy
Econometrics of panel data and spatial econometrics
Name: My Tra
Surname: Nguyen
City/Country
of residence: London, UK
Position: graduate
Affiliation: n/a
Main research
interests:
Spatial Econometrics and Applied Spatial Econometrics for modelling economic and financial data.
Name: Christian
Surname: Oberst
City/Country
of residence: Dortmund, Germany
Position: Research Assistant, doctoral candidate
Affiliation: Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster
Main research
interests:
Metropolitan Areas;Delineation of Regional Markets, in particular Housing Markets; The field of Regional Economics in General
Name: Srinivas
Surname: Parinandi
City/Country
of residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Position: Graduate Student (PhD program in Political Science)
Affiliation: University of Michigan, Department of Political Science
Main research
interests:
“Competitive federalism” (how the policies of states affect the policies of culturally, demographically, and geographically similar states). I look at whether American states competed with each other to lower welfare payments, and at how population changes in states affect the structures of state pension systems.
Name: Ilaria
Surname: Petrarca
City/Country
of residence: Fiumicino (RM), Italy
Position: PhD Candidate in Economics
Affiliation: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Main research
interests: Public Economics, Local Public Finance and Political Economy
Name: Francesca
Surname: Petrarca
City/Country
of residence: Rome, Italy
Position: graduate
Affiliation: n/a
Main research
interests:
Spatial econometrics
Factor Analysis and Multivariate Analysis
Longitudinal Analysis
Name: Edoardo
Surname: Rainone
City/Country
of residence: Rome, Italy
Position: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: Doctoral school of Economics (Economic Statistics), University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Main research
interests:
Multivariate Statistics
Econometric analysis
Name: Marlis
Surname: Ranieri
City/Country
of residence: Mestre (VE), Italy
Position: Phd student
Affiliation: University of Padova
Main research
interests:
Likelihood methods for nuisance parameters (approaches to likelihood based inference when nuisances are present); Asymptotic theory for stochastic processes (asymptotics of curved exponential families, spatio-temporal stochastic processes in general); Sampling theory: randomized response sampling.
Name: Mohja
Surname: Rhoads
City/Country
of residence:
Sacramento (CA), US
Position: PhD Student in Planning
Affiliation: University of Southern California (USC)
Main research
interests:
Transportation: Neighbourhood travel and Telecommunication use as a travel substitute.
Name: Masagus M.
Surname: Ridhwan
City/Country
of residence: Amstelveen, Netherlands
Position: PhD student
Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
Main research
interests:
Regional finance, spatial econometrics, intranational.
Macroeconomics
Name: Damiana
Surname: Rigamonti
City/Country
of residence: Urgnano (BG), Italy
Position: Ph.D Student in Economics and Industrial Organization
Affiliation: University of Bergamo
Main research
interests:
Corporate Finance: Private Equity and Corporate Governance (Performance of the deals, changes in the governance structure); Statistical and econometric applications; Times series, panel data and qualitative choice models.
Name: Annachiara
Surname: Saguatti
City/Country
of residence: Bologna, Italy
Position: PhD student
Affiliation: Università di Bologna, Department of Statistics
Main research
interests:
European regional policy and economic convergence
Regional economic cycles
Name: Juanita
Surname: Vasquez
City/Country
of residence: Bogotá, Colombia
Position: Consultant-research assistant
Affiliation: Economics-public policy evaluation and economic development
Main research
interests:
Social economics, particularly related to economic sustainable development in war stricken regions. The strengthening of rural economies and communities, in the face of the expansion of conflict lead by the movement of illicit activities (balloon effect).
Name: Agnese
Surname: Vitali
City/Country
of residence: San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
Position: PhD Student
Affiliation: Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan
Main research
interests:
Multilevel modeling; Transition to adulthood; Fertility behaviours and intentions;
Regional (both between and within country) variation in young adults’ living arrangements.
Name: Bartosz
Surname: Witkowski
City/Country
of residence: Warszawa, Poland
Position: Assistant professor
Affiliation: Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Main research
interests:
Modeling with panel data (limited dependent variable class of models); Modeling insurance (loss distributions, hunger for bonus, moral hazard with panel data); General microeconometrics.
Name: Lorena
Surname: Zardo Trindade
City/Country
of residence: Vitória (ES), Brazil
Position: Master Student
Affiliation: São Paulo State University
Main research
interests:
Regional and Urban Economics and ; Development and Welfare Economics
Spatial Econometrics, with special enphasis in the role of space in economic and population interaction between cities
Name: Nikolaos
Surname: Zirogiannis
City/Country
of residence: Reno (NV), US
Position: PhD student / Graduate research assistant
Affiliation: Department of Resource Economics, University of Nevada, Reno
Main research
interests:
The economics of wildfire prevention: incentives for private investment in wildfire prevention amongst homeowners living in communities bordering forested areas.
Name: Alireza
Surname: Zolfaghari
City/Country
of residence: London, UK
Position: PhD Researcher
Affiliation: Imperial College London
Main research
interests:
Discrete Choice Models. I am trying to develop a discrete choice models for residential locations choice considering spatial correlation.
Instructors and staff
Giuseppe Arbia
City/Country of residence: Pescara/Roma, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
Position:
Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, University "G. d'Annunzio" 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.
Raffaella Giacomini
City/Country of residence: London, UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Position:
Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Economics, University College London, UK.
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Econometrics” (Week I)
Research interests: Forecasting, Time Series Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics.
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.
Serena Arima
City/Country of residence: Rome, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
Position: Post-doc, University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Role in SEAI: Instructor, “Computer Labs” (Week I)
Research interests: Bayesian modelling, Bayesian computational methods, hierarchical models, biostatistics, small area estimation.
Gianfranco Piras
City/Country of residence: Ithaca (NY), USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), 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 Geography, University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Role in SEAI: Organization
Rosario Pavone
City/Country of residence: Rome, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
Position: PhD in Economic Geography, University of Rome “la Sapienza”
Role in SEAI: Tutorship
