1) The December 2015 NARSC Newsletter is now available. It can be viewed here - http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=417.
2) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The 10th Annual Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association will be held in Rome from June 13th to June 15th at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. All details can be found at the website of the Association or directly at the website of the Conference at:
www.spatialeconometricsassociation.it
Special features of the conference this year:
- Two special “Decennial” lectures by Jean Paelinck and Luc Anselin
- Two invited speakers: Dan Griffith and second name to be confirmed
- A special issue of the journal “Econometrics” (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/econometrics)
- A round table on software for spatial econometrics with R, STATA, GeoDa and SAS
- The first meeting of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute Alumni on June 12nd
- A crash introductory 2-days course on Spatial Econometrics and application in R will be held on June 10th and 11th
The deadline for submitting an abstract is April, 16th 2016
Notification of acceptance will be sent by April, 30th, 2016
The deadline for the Early Bird registration is May 14th, 2016
Please note that, due to the coincidence with the Jubilee in Rome, it is important to book the hotel well in advance. The website reports a large number of alternative accommodations.
Immediately before the conference there will be the 9th edition of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute starting from May 16th and finishing on June 10th.
The deadline for applying to the summer school is February 20th, 2016 (applications at www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org )
Notification of acceptance will be sent by March, 1st, 2016