VERA

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 30th - July 4th, 2025 - San Giobbe Economics Campus, Cannaregio 873, Venice

The aim of the course is 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 4th, 2025 (deadline for fee payment: May 31st, 2025).


Bayesian Methods in Economics and Finance

August 25th - 29th, 2025 - San Giobbe Economics Campus, Cannaregio 873, Venice

The course is an introduction to Bayesian Inference, starting from first principles and covering topics of interest to applied econometricians in economics and finance. The course is addressed to students without previous knowledge of Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics. 
The methods introduced in the lectures will be illustrated with hands-on applications in MATLAB and R based on reasoned statistical and economic examples. 

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

The deadline for application is May 4th, 2025 (deadline for fee payment: May 31st, 2025).
 


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