The teachers of SEAI are worldwide famous for the quality of their scientific research in the field of spatial econometrics and for having contributed to the birth and the development of this scientific field. They are all very motivated in taking part to the school, in assisting and interacting with students and in contributing to the training of new generations of researchers in spatial econometrics.

Luc Anselin
Director, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation. Main research interests: Spatial data analysis and geographic information science, with applications in regional economics, environmental economics, real estate economics as well as in epidemiology, criminology and political science. luc.anselin@asu.edu

Giuseppe Arbia
Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, Universty "Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" of Rome, Italy Director of SEAI. Main research interests: Spatial concentration of economic activities. Spatial econometrics. Spatial Health Econometrics. giuseppe.arbia@rm.unicatt.it

Daniel Arribas-Bel
PhD Research Analyst at the GeoDaCenter for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, at ASU. Main research interests: Urban Economics and Regional Science, Spatial Analysis and Spatial Econometrics and Open source scientific computing. darribas@asu.edu

Badi Baltagi
Distinguished Professor of Economics. CPR Senior Research Associate. Center for Policy Research Syracuse University, USA. Main research interests: Econometrics. Panel data. Spatial econometrics. bbaltagi@maxwell.syr.edu

David Drukker
Director of Econometrics, Stata Corporation. Main research interests: Spatial econometrics, Econometric methods, Panel data, Stata use and Stata programming. gp247@cornell.edu

Diego Giuliani
Post-doctoral student at University of Trento, Italy. Main research interests: Spatial and spatio-temporal point pattern analysis, spatial concentration activities.

Giovanni Millo
Senior analyst at Research and Development dept., Assicurazioni Generali, Trieste, Italy. Main research interests: Insurance economics, computational econometrics, spatial econometrics and panel data. Giovanni_Millo@Generali.com

Jean Paelinck
Distinguished Visiting Professor. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Main research interests: Regional economics, Theoretical spatial economics, Spatial econometrics. j.paelinck@planet.nl

Gianfranco Piras
Research Assistant Professor, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown Adjunct Professor, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University, Mor- gantown Main research interests: Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, Computational Econometrics, Regional Economics, Spatial Hedonic Models and Health Economics. Gianfranco.Piras@mail.wvu.edu

Ingmar Prucha
Professor of Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA. Main research interests: Theoretical and applied econometrics. Major focus is on spatial modeling. prucha@econ.bsos.umd.edu

“Preparing the SEAI students for the problems they are going to face in their scientific research as part of their master, doctoral or post doctoral dissertation is one of the aims of the Spatial Econometrics Association”, Giuseppe Arbia, SEAI 2008 instructor.

THE SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS ASSOCIATION

The Spatial Econometrics Association was founded on May 26th 2006 by the current members of the Board of Directors, with the aim of promoting "the development of theoretical tools and sound applications of the discipline of spatial econometrics, including spatial statistics and spatial data analysis". According to the bye-law of the Association "Spatial econometrics should be viewed in a wide sense involving developments of models and statistical tools for the analysis of externalities, spillovers, interactions etc. in various areas including economics, geography and regional science, etc. An aim of the Association is to disseminating and encourage such a knowledge and good practice in academic and research institutions and in the society at large". The SEA currently counts about 100 members coming from different continents of the world. After the founding conference, held in Rome in May 2006, the first official Conference of the Association was held in Cambridge in July 2007. The 2008 Conference was held New York (17-19 November). The 2009 Annual Conference is scheduled to be held in Barcellona (8-9 July). The previous conferences gave rise to special issues on the journals "Empiric Economics", "Papers in Regional Science", and "Regional Studies and Urban Economics". The 2009 conference will produce a special issue on the journal "Economic Modelling".

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