SIdE Summer Schools

The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE) in collaboration with the Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies (VERA) organizes two annual Summer Schools on:


Network Econometrics

June 29th - July 3rd, 2026 - San Giobbe Economics Campus, Cannaregio 873, Venice

The Summer School aims to provide participants with models and tools from graph theory to analyse various effects of social, economic, and political interaction. The school will host leading scholars developing relevant network modelling and inference research and their applications to various fields. It is organised by the Department of Economics in collaboration with the Venice Center for Risk Analytics for Public Policies (VERA)  and the Italian Econometrics Association (SIdE).

The summer school will be held in Venice at the Department of Economics and online.

The deadline for application is May 3rd, 2026.
Deadline for fee payment: May 29th, 2026.

Lecturers

Roberto Casarin

Coordinator - Full Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Emanuele Aliverti

University of Padova

Monica Billio

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Matteo Iacopini

LUISS University

Mariangela Guidolin

University of Padova

Luca Rossini

University of Milan

Ovielt Antonio Baltodano Lopez

Ca' Foscari University of Venice


Advanced Bayesian Econometrics: Bayesian Multivariate Models and Forecasting in Economics and Finance

August 31st - September 4th, 2026 - San Giobbe Economics Campus, Cannaregio 873, Venice

The course is advanced and covers state-of-the-art techniques and recent developments in Bayesian Multivariate Models for structural analysis and forecasting, such as bayesian machine learning models, nonparametric methods and forecast combinations, with a broad range of applications in economics and finance.

The methods introduced in the lectures will be illustrated with hands-on applications in MATLAB and R.

The summer schools will be held in Venice at the Department of Economics and online.

Deadline fo application: May 3rd, 2026.
Deadline for fee payment: May 29th, 2026.
 

Lecturers

Gaetano Carmeci

Coordinator - Associate Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Trieste

Roberto Casarin

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Matteo Ciccarelli

European Central Bank, DG Economics

Karin Klieber

Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)

Francesco Ravazzolo

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and BI Norwegian Business School, Norway


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