Giuseppe Arbia
Curriculum
Current positions:Full Professor of Statistics, University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy).Professor of Basic Econometrics and economic Statistics, LUISS “Guido Carli” University, Rome (Italy).
Academic degrees:1984- 1987: Doctor of Philosophy – University of Cambridge (UK),1977-1981: BA in Statistics, University “La Sapienza”, Rome (Italy)
Visiting scholar:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2008.University of Texas at Dallas, January 2008.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January-February 2007.University of Cambridge, UK, August 2005.University of Sheffield, UK, September 1991.University of California at Santa Barbara, National Center for Geographical Information and Analysis, September-November 1989.
Scientific Societies memberships:International Statistical Institute, American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society, Regional Science Association, Spatial Econometrics Association, International Association for studies on Income and Wealth, Societa’ Italiana di Statistica.
Chair of Scientific Association:Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association (http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/)
Teaching:Courses of Statistics, Econometrics, Business Statistics, Economic Statistics, Probability, Spatial Econometrics, Econometric models and time series, Multivariate Startistics, Time series analysis, Stochastic processes and their applications, Introductory spatial statistics. Bachelor, Master, Ph D and Executive level.
Congresses organized:
- Second “Health Econometrics” Workshop, Rome, July, 2010. (Member of the scientific committee).
- III Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, Barcellona, July, 2009. (Member of the scientific committee)
- First “Health Econometrics” Workshop, Milan, December, 2008. (Member of the scientific committee).
- II Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, New York, November, 2008. (Chair of the local organizing committee. Member of the scientific committee)
- International Workshop on “Spatial Econometrics”, Roma, 25-27 May, 2006. (Chair of the local organizing committee. Chair of the scientific committee)
- International Workshop on Spatial statistical methods in archaelogical and cultural heritage safeguard research “, Pescara, 18-19 July 2000. (Chair of the local organizing committee, Chair of the scientific committee)
- International Workshop on “Advances in spatial statistics: methods and application”, Trento, 20-21 October 1994. (Chair of the local organizing committee, Chair of the scientific committee)
Summer school organized
- “Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute”, 4 weeks course with international students and international instructors, Rome, June-July, 2010 (Director of the course and instructor of Spatial Statistics).
- “Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute”, 4 weeks course with international students and international instructors, Rome, May-June, 2009 (Director of the course and instructor of Spatial Statistics).
- “Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute”, 4 weeks course with 30 international students from 15 different countries and international instructors, Rome, May-June, 2008 (Director of the course and instructor of Spatial Statistics).
Seminars and Conferences:More than 100 invited speeches, seminars, conferences in the main universities and institutions all over the world (for a full list see http://www.sci.unich.it/~arbia/l16.htm)Publications:•· 29 articles published on journals listed on Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports. Total Impact Factor: 36.426
- 7 articles on refereed books
- 2 books with international publishers
- 4 books with Italian publishers
- 5 edited special issues of ISI Thompson listed journals
- 14 Articles on other refereed journals
- 102 other publications
(for a full list see http://www.sci.unich.it/~arbia/l15.htm)
Membership in Board of Editors:Empirical Economics, Papers in Regional Sciences, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.
Pubblicazioni
1. Articles on Journals listed on Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports 2006
[1] Clusters of firms in space and time (with Giuseppe Espa, Diego Giuliani and Andrea Mazzitelli) (to apper on Regional Science and Urban Economics), 2010, IF 1.216 [2] Aggregation of regional economic time series with different spatial correlation structures (with G. Espa and M. Bee) (to appear on Geographical Analysis). 2010, IF 2.564 [3] Growth and convergence in a multi-regional model with space-time dynamics (with Elhorst JP and Piras G) (to appear on Geographical Analysis). 2010, IF 2.564 [4] Detecting negative spatial autocorrelation in georeferenced random variables (with Dan Griffith), (to appear on International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences), 2010, IF 2.293 [5] A new class of spatial Concentration measures (with G. Piras) Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, 4471-4481, 2009, IF 1.126 [6] Institutions and geography: empirical test of spatial growth models in European regions (with M. Battisti and G. Di Vaio), Economic Modelling, 27, 12-21, 2009, IF 0.375 [7] Spatial dependence in the tails of air pollutant distributions: alternatives to the spatial correlogram (with Copetti, M. and Lafratta, G.), Environmetrics, 20, 3 , 221 – 345, May 2009. IF 0.790 [8] New spatial econometric techniques and applications in regional science (with Bernard Fingleton), Papers in Regional Sciences, 87, 3, 311-317, 2008. IF 1.259. [9]. Does evidence on regional convergence depend on the estimation strategy ? Results from a sample of NUTS-2 European regions, 1977-2000. (with Le Gallo, J. and Piras, G), Spatial Economic Analysis, 3, 2, 209-224, June, 2008. [10]. A class of spatial statistical methods in the empirical analysis of spatial clusters, (with Espa, G. e Quah, D.), Empirical Economics, 34, 1, 81-103, 2008. IF 0.421 [11] Nonlinear Regional Economic Dynamics: Continuous-Time Specification, Estimation and Stability Analysis (with Piras G. and Donaghy K.) (Journal of Geographical Systems, 9, 4, 311-344, 2007. IF 1.250. [12]. Spatial Sampling Plans to Monitor the 3-D Spatial Distribution of Extremes in Soil Pollution Surveys (with Lafratta G., Simeoni C), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51 ,8, 4069-4082, 2007 IF 1.126 [13] Testing the Stochastic Convergence of Italian Regions using panel data, (with M. Costantini) Applied Economics Letters, 2006, 13, 775–783. IF 0.227 [14] “Exploring non linear dependence in the tails of bivariate marginals of a random field” (with G. Lafratta) Geographical analysis, 37, (4), 423-437. 2005 IF: 2.564
2. Articles on refereed books[15] A class of spatial statistical methods in the empirical analysis of spatial clusters, (G. Espa, G. e Quah, D.), in Spatial Econometrics: methods and applications, Arbia, G. and BAltagi, B. eds., reprint of the paper appeared on Empirical Economics, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009.[16] “Modelling individual behaviour of firms in the study of spatial concentration”, in U. Fratesi L. and Senn (eds.) Growth in Interconnected Territories: Innovation Dynamics, Local Factors and Agents, Springer-Verlag (with Copetti M. and Diggle P.J.), 297-328, ISBN: 978-3-540-70923-7, 2008.
3. Books with international publishers[17] Spatial Econometrics: Models and Applications, (with B. Baltagi, ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009.[17] Spatial Econometrics: Statistical foundations and applications to regional convergence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Marzo 2006.
4. Edited Issues[18] Special issue of Economic modelling on “Spatial Econometrics”, Co-edited with Francesco Moscone and Enrique Lopez-Bazo (expected 2010)[19] Special issue of Regional Studies and Urban Economics on “Spatial Econometrics”, Co-edited with Harry Kelejian (expected 2010)[20] Special issue of Papers in Regional Science on “Spatial Econometrics”, Co-edited with Bernard Fingleton, Vol.87, 3, 2008.[21] Special issue of Empirical Economics on “Spatial Econometrics”, Co-edited with Badi Baltagi, Vol. 34, 1, 2008.