The joint meeting of the 20th World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association & the 24th International Workshop in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics (SEA & SEW 2026) will take place on June 17-18, 2026. It is organized by Paris research center in Law and Economics (CRED) at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

The aim of this joint meeting is to promote and develop scientific interactions between economists, econometricians, statisticians and mathematicians on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics and their applications in several fields of economics. This meeting reinforces and encourages interactions between senior and junior researchers involved in Spatial Statistics and Econometrics.

All submissions in the fields of spatial analysis and statistics, spatial and network econometrics are welcome (theory, methodology, applications) and it will be of special interest those contributions that are within the scope of health, education and innovation issues and public policy evaluation. We encourage submissions by junior researchers.

During the SEA & SEW 2026, the Cem Ertur Prize, awarded by the French Association in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, will be given to honor outstanding research by a junior researcher related to spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. For this joint meeting, the Cem Ertur Prize linked to the Spatial Econometrics Association Prize.

Participants at the SEA & SEW 2026 will have the opportunity to submit their contributions for publication in a special issue, more information will be available later.

This joint meeting is organised in partnership with the Spatial Econometrics Association and the French Association in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics.

Please note that before the SEA & SEW 2026, the summer school of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute will take place on June 15-16, 2026 also at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. For more information and registration visit the Spatial Econometrics Association website.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Badi H. Baltagi is distinguished Professor of Economics, and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University since 2005. He was George Summey, Jr. Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University, 1993-2005. Also, part-time chair at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books including Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 6th edition (2021, Springer); Econometrics, 6th edition (2021, Springer), and editor of A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics (2001, Blackwell) and the Oxford Handbook of Panel Data (2015, Oxford University Press). He is also author or co-author of over 200 publications, all in leading economics journals. Professor Baltagi served as editor of Economics Letters, (2011-2021), editor of Empirical Economics, (1999-2018) and the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics as well as Econometric Reviews and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory. He is a Founding Member, fellow and ex-director of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He was also the 2018 winner of the Kuwait Prize for Economics and Social Sciences.

Yong Bao is a Professor of Economics in the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Riverside in 2004. He is a fellow of Econometric Reviews. His research interests include finite-sample theory, time series, financial econometrics, panel data and spatial econometrics. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Financial Econometrics, among others.

Klaus Nordhausen earned his Dipl.-Stat. degree from University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2003, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2008. He held postdoctoral fellowships at both the University of Tampere and the University of Turku, Finland, before advancing to the position of Associate Professor at Technical University of Vienna. He is currently a Professor of Statistics at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include computational statistics, robust and nonparametric methods, and dimension reduction techniques for multivariate data, particularly in contexts involving complex dependencies such as time series, spatial data, and spatio-temporal data. He has authored over 100 scientific articles, edited two books, and serves on the editorial board of Data Science in Science and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Multivariate Analysis.

Zhenlin Yang is a Professor of Economics and Statistics in the School of Economics, Singapore Management University. He obtained his PhD degree in 1992 from University of Alberta, Canada. He has published more than 70 papers covering a wide spectrum of research fields including Spatial Econometrics, E-Commerce, Quality Control and Statistics. Many of his publications appeared in top-ranked journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Quality Technology, Statistica Sinica and Lifetime Data Analysis. His current research interests include spatial econometrics, incomplete spatial/network panels, multi-dimensional (spatial) panel data analysis, bootstrap for refined inferences, and event time analysis. He is currently a Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association, and an Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics.