15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON
ECONOMETRIC MODELLING FOR AFRICA
7-9 JULY 2010

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The African Econometric Society will hold its Fifteenth Annual Conference over three full days from July 7 to July 9, 2010, at the new campus of the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
 
The Conference will include both plenary sessions and parallel sessions. The plenary sessions will be addressed by distinguished professors in a diversity of fields of economics and finance. The parallel sessions will be divided over three tracks covering econometric theory and applications as well as various fields of applied economics, quantitative and non-quantitative economic analysis, and a large range of related topics in economics and statistics.
 
The confirmed keynote speakers for the 2010 conference include:
 
Professor Karim Abadir (Imperial College London)
 
Professor Yacine Aït-Sahalia (Princeton University)
 
Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal (Rice University)
 
Professor Kaddour Hadri (Queen’s University, Belfast)
 
Professor Karl-Goran Maler (Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics)
 
Professor John Moore (Edinburgh University and London School of Economics)
 
Professor Franco Peracchi (Tor Vergata University, Rome)
 
Papers are invited in any of the following fields, as well as other related fields:
 
• Econometric theory and methods
• Microeconometrics
• Macroeconometrics
• Labor and household economics models
• General equilibrium, game theory and experimental economics
• Financial economics
• Monetary economics
• Environmental models
• Biophysical and social systems
• Industrial economics: markets and competition
• Global economic change and international trade
• Inequality and poverty reduction
• Health economics and models
• Fiscal policy and public economics
• Risk management in banking
• Computer-automated inference
• Agricultural economics
• Ethics, religion, and economics

Submission Requirement:
An abstract of two pages in Word to be e-mailed before February 28, 2010 to AES.EG2010@aucegypt.edu, defining the nature of the problem studied, the methodology used, and the way it will add value to the available literature.
 
Feedback of the review process will be communicated to authors by no later than March 31, 2010. The full text of accepted papers will be due by April 30, 2010.
 
Conference fees and Registration:
Information on conference fees and registration is available on the Registration page.
 
Grants:
A limited number of grants will be made available by the Society to cover travel and accommodation expenses for selected young African researchers to present their papers at the Conference. Application for such grants should be sent to AES.EG2010@aucegypt.edu by electronic mail before February 28, 2010, accompanied by a C.V. and a detailed version of the abstract.
 
A committee of competent reviewers will examine the applications for grants and the chosen applicants will be informed before the end of March 2010.
 
Accommodation and travel:
For information on accommodation and travel refer to the Accommodation Page.
 
For more information on the 2010 conference logistics, please click here.
 
Browse the website for more information on the organisation and its activities. To link to information about previous conferences, click here.