Event date: 2nd November 2023   Time: 10:00 to 15:00 GMT
Venue: The Conference Room, 1.06, 1st floor, Marshall Building, LSE (map)
Speaker: Aureo de Paula (University College London, CeMMAP and Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Organisers: Christian Julliard (LSE Finance and SRC/FMG), Frank Page (Indiana University and SRC/LSE) and Kathy Yuan (LSE Finance and SRC/FMG)

This event will consist of two lectures delivered by Professor de Paula, with a one-hour lunch break in between. The lectures aim at providing a brief and select overview on the econometrics of networks. The material covers basic definitional elements and statistical models for network formation, their role in econometric estimation protocols and some aspects considered when examining outcomes mediated by connections in networked environments. The lectures will focus on theoretical considerations, but illustrate those in relevant applications in economics and finance where possible.

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Aureo de Paula received his B.A. and M.Sc. in Economics from Pontificia Universidade Catolica—RJ (Brazil) in 1996 and 2000 respectively, he then went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University in 2002 and 2006.  Prior to joining University College London (UCL), he was an associate professor (with tenure) at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting faculty scholar at Northwestern and Harvard universities. Aureo is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association for Applied Econometrics and a Turing Fellow in 2021/23.  He is an elected member of the Econometric Society Council from 2022 and a director for the Review of Economic Studies.

Professor de Paula is affiliated with the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (UK), the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK), CEPR and several other research groups worldwide. Professor de Paula’s work has been featured in various academic publications and he has been associate editor for various academic journals (The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometrics Journal, Econometric Reviews Journal of Econometrics) and was a managing editor for The Review of Economics Studies. He is co-editor at the Journal of Econometrics and has won the Irving B. Kravis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the Faculty Education Award at UCL (joint with Dunli Li).