AFRICAN ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY CONFERENCE SCHEDULED TO BE HELD FROM 13 TO 15th JULY 2011 AT THE KSMS

The African Econometric Society (AES) is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Members of the society are associated with academic institutions, and the private and public sectors who share the goal of advancing econometric research, especially but not limited to African themes. The current office bearers of the society are Kaddour Hadri as the President, Yaw Nyarko as the vice president, Akin Iwayemi, Steve Koch as the treasurer, Reneé van Eyden as the secretary, Eugene Kouassi and Sam Olofin. The sixteenth AES’s conference will be held from 13th to 15th July 2011 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS). The objectives of the conference fit very well into the objectives of the School.

The Conference will include both plenary sessions and parallel sessions. The plenary sessions will be addressed by distinguished speakers in a diversity of fields of economics. Confirmed key note speakers for AES 2011 are:

1. Professor Jushan Bai   - Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, and New York University; was also a visiting professor at Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, as well as a visiting scholar at the IMF.

2. Professor Nour Meddahi – professor of Economics at Toulouse School of Economics; previously at Imperial College Business School, London and University of Montreal; his research interests are in modelling and statistical inference of time series, particularly financial data.

3. Professor Abhijit V. Banerjee - is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.

4. Professor Kaddour Hadri -is Professor of Economics in Queens University Management School and also Research Director for Economics Analysis and Behavior. Prior to joining Queen's University, he was Professor of Econometrics and Finance at Durham University. He has held visiting professor positions in many universities including University of Liverpool, Fudan University (China), Marseille University (France), University of Sydney (Australia) and Nanjing University (China). He has been Chairman of the Liverpool Economic and Statistical Society and currently elected President of the African Econometrics Society. He is also Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research and member of the Board of Editors of The German Economic Review.

The main objective is to promote econometric research to foster a better understanding of theoretical and empirical analysis. Research papers will be presented grouped into different thematic fields. The conference will thus:

(a) Bring together scholars with expertise in various fields to enhance knowledge exchange
(b) Facilitate exchange of ideas with keynote speakers who are endowed with enormous expertise
(c) Advance knowledge in economic theory and econometrics and their  application in African countries
(d) Enhance technical capacity in the African region.
(e) Inspire upcoming young researchers to pursue econometrics and expose them to tools of economic analysis

The conference is expected to stimulate interest in contemporary econometric research and use of more sophisticated econometric techniques in economic analysis and thus improve analytical accuracy. The expected outputs are:
1. Research papers that expand the frontier of knowledge in econometrics and applied research
2. Integration of African issues in econometric research
3. Exposure of new methods of analysis to African scholars, in particular young scholars, to stimulate interest in econometric research in the region
4. Build analytical capacity of researchers.
 

 The full text of the first call for papers is in this link.