The 23rd International Workshop in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics (SEW 2025) will take place on June 4-6, 2025. The workshop is organized by the Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE-LSE) and the Saint-Etienne School of Economics (SE²).

The aim of this international workshop is to promote and develop scientific exchanges between economists, econometricians, statisticians and mathematicians on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics and their applications in several fields of economics. The workshop reinforces and encourages exchanges between senior and junior researchers involved in Spatial Statistics and Econometrics.

All submissions in the fields of spatial analysis and statistics, spatial and network econometrics are welcome (theory, methodology, applications) and it will be of special interest those contributions that are within the scope of health, education and innovation issues and public policy evaluation. We encourage submissions by junior researchers.

During the workshop, the Cem Ertur Prize will be given to honor outstanding research by a junior researcher related to spatial statistics and spatial econometrics.

Participants at the 23rd International Workshop in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics will have the opportunity to submit their contributions for publication in a special issue of the International Regional Science Review.

This workshop is organised in partnership with the French Association in Spatial Econometrics and Statistics.

Cynthia Fan Yang is an Associate Professor and Bernard Sliger Scholar in the Department of Economics at Florida State University. Her primary research fields are theoretical and applied econometrics, with a current focus on panel data models with cross-sectional dependence, including spatial, factor, and network models. She is also interested in urban and regional economics.

David Van Riper has worked at the Minnesota Population Center since 2001, when he started as a graduate research assistant on IPUMS NHGIS. He is currently the Director of Spatial Analysis. In this role, he consults with MPC members on their spatial analysis needs, including project planning, data acquisition/creation/processing, and grant writing. He is co-Principal Investigator on two NIH-funded grants: IPUMS NHGIS and IPUMS GeoMarker. IPUMS NHGIS provides access to historical and contemporary small-area data, including GIS mapping files, for the United States. IPUMS GeoMarker allows users to securely geocode data and attach neighborhood characteristics to the geocoded output. He also works on the geographic aspects of other IPUMS products, including IPUMS USA, Historical Census Projects, IPUMS International, and IPUMS DHS.

César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar known for his contributions to economic complexity and for his applied work on data visualization and artificial intelligence. Hidalgo is a tenured professor at the Toulouse School of Economics’ (TSE) Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the head of the Center for Collective Learning a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices at Institute for Advanced Study (IAST) at TSE and the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies (CIAS) at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester. Between 2010 and 2019 Hidalgo led MIT’s Collective Learning group and prior to that he was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Hidalgo is also a founder of Datawheel, an award winning company specialized in public data distribution and economic development strategy. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor in Physics from Universidad Católica de Chile.