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Dear PhD-students and young researchers in regional science,

The 2006 Summer School in Groningen, 4-12 July 2006, offers a unique opportunity to develop and train your capabilities of using geo-coded data and spatial econometrics. With respect to GIS the School aims at explaining the wide potential of this technique and practising the use of ArcGis and GeoDa in spatial data exploration and spatial variable construction. With respect to spatial econometrics the aim is to deepen your understanding of the literature and give you a practical mastery of GeoDa and downloadable MatLab routines to implement spatial econometric estimation methods, such as spatial error models, spatial lag models, testing for spatial dependence and panel models. You will also be given a wider understanding of the context in which spatial econometric methods are applicable and how they can be used to help understand spatial economic processes better.

The instructors include world top scholars in GIS and Spatial Econometrics, such as Luc Anselin, Henk Folmer, Henry Overman and Steve Shepard. Lab sessions with real Eurostat datasets will be guided by Luc Anselin, Paul Elhorst and Dirk Stelder.

The next four ERSA Summer Schools will be heavily co-financed by the EU PREPARE project, which implies that the registration cost, the accommodation cost and most of the travel cost will be paid for by the European Union. For further information and application see: www.regroningen.nl/summerschool/
You are welcome to Groningen,
Jan Oosterhaven (Chair 2006 ERSA Summer School)