Here's the 🔥 news!
The Spatial Econometrics Association is proud to announce its 2023 Annual Conference, which will take place in San Diego, USA from November 16th to 17th. This year’s conference will feature a plenary lecture from some of the top researchers and professors in the field. Check out NARCS conference section for further details. Take note also the abstracts’ deadline submission, scheduled for July 1st.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the latest advancements in spatial econometrics, network with other professionals, and gain insights into the future of the field. The conference will also provide a platform for attendees to share their own research and ideas with their peers.
The conference will be an excellent opportunity for professionals in the field to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in spatial econometrics. It will also be a great chance for those interested in entering the field to learn more about it and make valuable connections.
We hope that you can join us this November for what promises to be an exciting event! We look forward to seeing you there!
Check deadlines and call for papers.

scientific Commitee 🥼
- Giuseppe Arbia
- Anil Bera
- Roger Bivand
- Jean Paul Elhorst
- Ingmar Prucha
- Julie Le Gallo
- Alain Pirotte
- Peter Robinson
- Francesca Rossi
- Yang Zehnlin
Organising Commitee 🫁
- Giuseppe Arbia
- Elisa Fusco
- Vincenzo Nardelli
- Niccolò Salvini
- Ilaria Valentini
Scientific Program 🧪
The program will be articulated as follows:
- 4 plenary sessions where past and current Directors of the SEA will present their most recent work (called The Board of Directors cut). Presenters are: Peter Egger, Luc Anselin, Anil Bera and Giuseppe Arbia
- 1 organized session on “Spatial interaction modelling”
- 1 round table on Spatial Econometrics Software Round-Table
- 8 concurrent session
- meeting of of all the members of the SEA with important news about the life of the Association
Thursday | Friday |
Registration: San Diego Ballroom Foyer | Registration: San Diego Ballroom Foyer |
Office: Pacific Boardroom | Office: Pacific Boardroom |
SEA | SEA |
Thursday 8.00am-9.00 session | Friday 8.00am-9.00 session |
SEA welcome address (plenary) | The Board of Directors’ cut 3: Anil Bera (plenary) with Malabika Koley |
“Revisiting Anselin et al. (1996): The Last Word on Testing Spatial Regression Models” | |
Thursday 9am-10am session | Friday 9am-10am session |
The Board of Directors’ cut 1: Peter Egger (invited plenary) with B. Baltagi and M. Kesina | The Board of Directors’ cut 4 Giuseppe Arbia (plenary) with Vincenzo Nardelli |
“GMM-estimation of Panel Data Models with a Component-specific Higher-order Network Structure” | “Robust spatial correlation and spatial outlier detection” |
10-10:30am coffee break | 10-10:30am coffee break |
Thursday 10:30 am-12:30 pm | Friday 10:30 am-12:30p session |
Concurrent Session 1 spatial interaction | Concurrent Session 5 Autocorrelation and autoregression |
Concurrent Session 2 Environmental and Health applications | Concurrent Session 6 spatial panel and space-time models |
12:30p-130p lunch on your own | 12:30p-130p lunch on your own |
Thursday 1:30 pm-2:30 pm session | Friday 1:30 pm-3:30 pm session |
The Board of Directors’ cut 2: Luc Anselin (plenary). 200609 | Round table (plenary) |
“Spatial Econometric Model Specification Search: Another Look” | Pedro Amaral, Cedeplar/UFMG 200569 |
Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) 200726 | |
Gianfranco Piras, Catholic University 200762 | |
Elijah Knaap, San Diego State University 200778 | |
Thursday 2:30 pm-3:30 pm session | |
Meeting of the members of the SEA (plenary) | |
3:30 pm-4:00 pm coffee break | 3:30 pm-4:00 pm coffee break |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm session | 4:00 pm-6:00 pm session |
Concurrent Session 3 W matrices, networks and neighbourhoods | Concurrent Session 7 statistical challenges to spatial econometrics: sample, subsamples and trees |
Concurrent Session 4 Economic applications | Concurrent Session 8 housing and quality of life |
DETAILS OF THE PAPERS | |
Spatial Econometrics Software Round-Table (plenary) | |
PySAL/Spreg – The module for spatial regression models in Python | Pedro Amaral, Cedeplar/UFMG |
How the R-spatial evolution project affects spatial econometrics workflows | Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) |
Heterogeneity in spatial models: More on hspm in R | Gianfranco Piras, Catholic University |
PySAL and friends: reflections on onboarding, growth, and change | Elijah Knaap, San Diego State University |
CONCURRENT SESSION 1 | |
spatial interaction models | |
Spatial econometric modeling of public transport with the R package spflow | Lukas Dargel, Toulouse School of Economics |
International mobility and environmental factors | Thibault Laurent, Toulouse School of Economics; Paula Margaretic, university Adolfo ibañez; Christine Thomas-Agnan, Toulouse School of Economics |
Visualizing migration data with R | Thibault Laurent, Toulouse School of Economics; Paula Margaretic, university Adolfo ibañez |
CONCURRENT SESSION 2 | |
Enviromental and Health applications | |
Exploring the Drivers of Increased US Cover Crop Adoption | Kazi Ullah, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Nightlight, landcover and buildings: understanding intracity socioeconomic differences | Andres Garcia, Universidad del Rosario |
Spatial Dynamics of Urbanization and Environmental Sustainability in Europe: A Spatial Panel Analysis | Andreea Matyas, Babes-Bolyiai University |
Spatial Econometrics Software Round-Table (PLENARY) | |
PySAL/Spreg – The module for spatial regression models in Python | Luc Anselin, University of Chicago; Pedro Amaral, Cedeplar/UFMG |
How the R-spatial evolution project affects spatial econometrics workflows | Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) |
Heterogeneity in spatial models: More on hspm in R | Gianfranco Piras, Catholic University; mauricio sarrias, Universidad de Talca |
PySAL and friends: reflections on onboarding, growth, and change | Elijah Knaap, San Diego State University; Sergio Rey, San Diego State University |
CONCURRENT SESSION 3 | |
W matrices, networks and neighbourhoods | |
Testing Endogeneity of a Spatial Weight Matrix in a Weak Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Model With Parametric Misspecification | Jieun Lee, Emory University |
Parameterizing Spatial Weight Matrices in Spatial Econometric Models | Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen |
GeoGraphs for spatially embedded networks | Sergio Rey, San Diego State University |
Spatial Econometrics for Developers’ Strategic Interactions in Government Land Auctions | Yilan Luo, Hunan University; Wen-Chi Liao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
CONCURRENT SESSION 4 | |
Economic applications | |
EVALUATION OF THE SPACE-TIME EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON LOANS AND SAVINGS IN ROMANIA | Codruta Mare, Babes-Bolyai University |
Network Structures and Economic Behaviors | Xu Lin, Virginia Tech |
Fiscal Sustainability and Size of Brazilian Municipalities: A Spatial Probit Analysis | Pedro Amaral, Cedeplar/UFMG |
CONCURRENT SESSION 5 | |
Autocorrelation and autoregression testing | |
Testing spatial correlation for spatial models with heterogeneous coefficients when both n and T are large | Shi Ryoung Chang, Ohio State University; Robert de Jong, Ohio State University |
Estimation and Inference in Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models with Common Latent Factors | M. Hashem Pesaran, University of Southern California; Cynthia Yang, Florida State University |
Convolutional auto-regression for multivariate spatial time series | Yasumasa Matsuda, Tohoku University; RUNYU DAI, Tohoku University |
CONCURRENT SESSION 6 | |
spatial panel data models | |
Estimation of Matrix Exponential Spatial Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects | Ye Yang, Capital University of Economics and Business; Osman Dogan, Istanbul Technical University; Suleyman Taspinar, CUNY – Queens College; Anil Bera, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign |
Multi-Dimensional Spatial Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects: Formulation, Estimation and Inference | Alain Pirotte, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas; Zhenlin Yang, Singapore Management University |
Combining p-values for combined hypothesis testing in panels | Giovanni Urg, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass); Alain Pirotte, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas |
Bias-corrections for cross-sectional and serial dependencies and heteroskedasticities in large linear panel models with interactive effects. | RUNYU DAI, Tohoku University; Takashi Yamagata, University of York |
CONCURRENT SESSION 7 | |
statistical challenges to spatial econometrics: sample, subsamples, kernels and trees | |
Defining ad-hoc sampling designs for small area estimation | Vincenzo Nardelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
A spatial CART algorithm: some preliminary results | Alfredo Cartone, University of Chieti-Pescara |
Testing Clustered Equal Predictive Ability with Unknown Clusters | Oguzhan Akgun, University of Burgundy |
CONCURRENT SESSION 8 | |
housing and quality of life | |
The House Price-Supply Curve | Jiyoung Chae, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
Improving real estate price prediction accuracy by explicitly considering heteroscedasticity | Takahisa Yokoi, Shokei Gakuin University |
Seeding efficient large-scale public health interventions in diverse spatial-social networks | Xiaoyi Han, Xiamen University |
Useful resources 
- august 15th deadline for registering and earmarking the paper (link alla pagina NARSC)
- pingback registration link from NARCS (under dev)
- conference program link (under dev)