Organisers

Almas Heshmati

Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at Jönköping University. He held similar positions at the Sogang University, Korea University and Seoul National University. He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The United Nations University during 2001-2004. He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994). His research interests include development economics, applied microeconomics, performance analysis, environmental economics and well-being.

Arturas Juodis

Artūras Juodis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests include theoretical and applied panel data econometrics. He was a visiting researcher at Monash University, Lund University and the University of Southern California. He got his PhD in economics from the University of Amsterdam.


Vasilis Sarafidis

Vasilis Sarafidis is Professor of Economics at the BI Norwegian Business School. Vasilis' main area of research lies in the econometric analysis of panel data. His main focus is on model specification and testing, dynamic panels, common factor structures, models for spatial interactions and networks, multi-dimensional panels, and random coefficient models; with applications to the analysis of crime, residential water-usage demand, the performance and risk attitude of banking institutions, among others.


Marcel-Cristian Voia

Marcel-Cristian Voia is Professor of Economics at University of Orléans, France. His research interest are in the econometrics of cross section and panel data, duration models and distribution analysis. His main areas of applications are in industrial organization, banking, labor, political science and environment.


Scientific Committee

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI) Jushan Bai (Columbia University) Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University) Jorg Breitung (University of Cologne) Maurice Bun (University of Amsterdam) Felix Chan (Curtin University of Technology) Jinyong Hahn (University of California, Los Angeles) Mark N. Harris (Curtin University of Technology) Almas Heshmati (Jönköping University) Bo Honore (Princeton University) Cheng Hsiao (University of Southern California) Lynda Khalaf (Carleton University) Yukinobu Kitamura (Hitotsubashi University) Jan Kiviet (University of Amsterdam) Jaya Krishnakumar (University of Geneva) Koen Jochmans (University of Cambridge) Artūras Juodis (University of Amsterdam) Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen) Esfandiar Maasoumi (Emory University) Jacques Mairesse (CREST-INSEE) Laszlo Matyas (Central European University) Marc Nerlove (University of Maryland) Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge and University of Southern California) Vasilis Sarafidis (BI Norwegian Business School) Peter Schmidt (Michigan State University) Patrick Sevestre (University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne) Robin Sickles (Rice University) Noriyuki Takayama (RIPPA and Hitotsubashi University) Alain Trognon (CREST-INSEE) Giovanni Urga (Cass Business School and Bergamo University) Marcel-Cristian Voia (Laboratoire d’Économie d’Orléans) Tom Wansbeek (University of Groningen) Jeffrey Wooldridge (Michigan State University)


Past Conferences

Bank of Lithuania & Vilnius University (Vilnius, 2019) Sogang University (Seoul, 2018) University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, 2017) Curtin University of Technology (Perth, 2016) Central European University (Budapest, 2015) Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, 2014) Cass Business School (London, 2013) Banque de France (Paris, 2012) McGill University (Montreal, 2011) University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2010) Bonn University (Bonn, 2009) Xiamen University (Xiamen, 2007) University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 2006) • Copenhagen, 2005 College Station, 2004 Berlin, 2002 Geneva, 2000 Goteborg, 1998 Paris, 1997 Amsterdam, 1996 Paris, 1994 Budapest, 1992 Paris, 1990 Paris, 1988 Paris, 1987 Paris, 1977