Dear Member of the Spatial Econometrics Association,

first of all let me wish you all a very happy new year 2014.

The beginning of the year is the right occasion to give you some updates of the ongoing activity of the Association and of the programs for the year 2014. As you all know two are the main activities of the Association namely the Yearly conference and the summer school.

1) The VIII Annual World Conference of the SEA this year will be held in Zurich from Wednesday 11^th june (reception) to june 13^th. The link at http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/2014/ will be soon populated with all the relevant information. The conference is organized by  Prof. Peter Egger at the ETH Zurich (http://www.kof.ethz.ch/).

2) The 7th Edition of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute (SEAI14) will be held in Rome, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth. ( http://roma.unicatt.it/home?rdeLocaleAttr=en). The instructors of this year's edition are: Giuseppe Arbia (week 1), Anil Bera (week 2), Ingmar Prucha (week 3), Badi Baltagi (week 4). The computer lab sessions on the software language R will be lead by Gianfranco Piras, Diego Giuliani and Giovanni Millo.

Here below please find some important deadlines and timetable:

February 20th, 2014 - Deadline for formal applications

March 10th, 2014 - Notification of acceptance

April 15th, 2014 - Deadline for the first half of the payment

May  10th 2014 - Deadline for final payments

May 12th- June 6th, 2014 - Courses

The application form can be downloaded at the web page: http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/advanced/program_2014.html

Send the applications forms to : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I rely on  your help to diffuse these information in your network. Looking forward to see you all in some of the future activities.

Best regards,

Giuseppe Arbia

Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association